Employee Bests Micromanaging Boss With Tactical Petty Revenge

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Sep 28, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

One of the worst things to find yourself dealing with when you're just trying to smoothly navigate your day's tasks is to have a boss who insists on micromanaging. Micromanagement is the worst. It usually seems to stem from some maddening urge for the person to control everything at once. Simply put, this isn't the most efficient way to get things done. It sounds like this Reddit user had finally had enough and developed ways to circumvent micromanagement; u/sixuldv8's story on r/pettyrevenge has them straight up calling out their boss for being too much when the boss interferes with how they do their job. It's impressive, really — too many people try to grin and bear it through a manager's unreasonable habits. This employee actively tried to circumvent them altogether. 

Tactical petty revenge is an impressive type of revenge, indeed. Keep the revenge train rolling with this pro revenge story about a guy who secretly trained their roommate to not wake up to their morning alarms. Based on the roommate's behavior, it sounds like he had it coming. 

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    Font - r/pettyrevenge u/sixuldv8 · 21h + Join 1 S 2 I had to teach my boss that even though she is my boss I am not her secretary. TLDR at end. I have a good boss but sometimes you have to teach them a thing or two. My boss is becoming the bi h from micromanaging ! I. Where I used to be able to do my job I can no longer do it with out constant interruptions of micromanagement. Boss has office near mine, if I handle a business call she listens and tries to control the call from his office. It is
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    Font - The customer should be served not the boss. I sort have dealt with this pretty well and cleaver. When I am on phone with someone and eavesdropping boss starts to try to control a simple phone call with "no don't do that, do, them who is that?, Ask them "I become polite cover the phone and tell say to my boss I have this handled. If boss persist with the micromanagement crap I then cover the phone and say "Mr. Customer, can you please hold a moment, it is to loud and busy here to understan
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    Font - Next time boss interrupts me on a call I cover the phone, say can you hold one second, and politely ask boss, "do you want this one", look at boss, and wait till their attention goes back to the desk when I then handle call. Now that I have broken that mind numbing habit boss has moved to different interruptions to my work flow. He is clever but I am more so. "Can you copy files from XXXXX and scan them to me?" Over and over I hear this. Now you do things for your boss but when they run t
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    Font - Most of our documents are PDF and our company will not provide us the ability to edit stuff..so. .when.. .cant get my job done I wait till boss wants a document scanned to them. I wait for a one pager that I know they want to use electronically. I retrieve the file, 50% of the time is in boss office, I pull the page they want and I then scan the damn thing. But the end of the document goes in scanner first so the document will go to boss UPSIDE DOWN and not use able by them. I then announ
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  • 05
    Organism - Bonus Revenge: Boss has to go to the scanner to rescan his document. Once he handles it he is obligated by company culture to return it to the file so I comply with his micro management demands and he ends up doing what he should have done in the first place. TLDR; Boss is micro managing, I give him more to manage when he micro manages. My work load diminishes and boss's increases, life is gooo000od.
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