'I guess we're off then': Hardworking Hybrid Team Gets Payback on Micromanaging Boss After A Vicious Attack On Their Productivity

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Feb 1, 2023 9:00 AM EST

For decades, office employees have been prisoners of their cubicle, pretending to "work" whenever their boss walks by. Ever since the pandemic, a lot of jobs have realized the practicality of adjusting office scheduling and having their employees work remotely. Even though employees that work from home save costs for their company and are typically more productive, for some reason, companies are resistant to the idea. Perhaps they're obsessed with micromanagement? Managers either don't trust their team to get their work done OR they simply don't understand that work can be completed without their intervention. With more jobs switching to the remote model or hybrid work models, some bad managers are tightening their grip on the throats of their teams, attempting to assert their power by revoking privileges and being general jerks to their work force.

One Redditor was caught in the crosshairs of a power-crazed, micromanaging boss after his entire team innocently chose the same day to work from home, which led to some severely unnecessary punishment. Working with a hybrid WFH model, this man led a team of 4 employees who worked in the office two days a week. Since they could choose which days they could be in the office, most employees would only go in person on days they had a lighter work load.

One day, they all had assessed a heavy working day and stayed home so that they could crush the job with more productivity and fewer distractions, but their boss flipped out. With the absence of the man's entire team, his terrible manager went straight to C-level bosses to force everyone on his team to use PTO hours for the days they were home, claiming that they all 'decided not to work that day'. Since they weren't being paid for their work and were forced to take PTO, the team angrily got together a list of to-do's from each of their enormous workloads, sending the list to the micromanager, pressuring her to complete the work of all 4 of them while they enjoyed their "vacation time".

After sending their work list, they all switched off their phones and logged off of all communications, leaving their badgering, micromanaging boss to fend for herself and do all of the work alone. Sucks to suck.