'[Our boss] hates it': Clock-watching micromanagers get the tables turned on them in these two threads

There's something infuriating about a manager who doesn't trust you enough to let a little "give and take" slide. There will always be natural stopping points in a lot of workplaces where starting something new with ten minutes remaining until the end of the workday doesn't make sense. At this point, it makes sense to call it a day, knowing that you'll probably arrive ten minutes early tomorrow to get started or get stuck working late some other day this week. It's part of the natural ebb and flow that adds a little grey to the black-and-white rules of timekeeping.

Enter: These clock-watching micromanagers. These types of managers operate in a world where things are black or white; they have little to no understanding of what a "grey area" is and probably don't have enough stupid brain cells to power that function anyways. These managers will be watching that clock like a hawk, and you had better be at your desk from 8 am (on the dot) until 5 pm, no exceptions. Oh, unless you need to work late or come in early to finish something —That, to them, is a suitable exception.

Well, these workers turned the tables on their clock-watching micromanagers and decided that if they weren't allowed to leave early or come in late, then they wouldn't be coming in early or staying late either; This was far more than these managers were prepared to comprehend.

The first thread starts on #1, and the second on #8.

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Posted by Brad Dickson