'If she wanted to micromanage me I would make her work for it': Employee manages a micromanager by only doing what they're explicitly told to
Dealing with a micromanager is a burdensome experience, with the complete lack of autonomy and self-determination totally sapping any motivation you might have once had for your job. To make matters worse, it almost always comes from a manager who should have never been promoted over you, who has far less of an understanding of their role (and yours) than they seem to think they do… maybe that's the core of the issue?
This employee shared their experience of managing their micromanaging boss. Their job was "fairly easy" for them, but when their supervisor went on extended leave, things got a whole lot harder in the form of a new supervisor who loved micromanaging. Things escalated when the new supervisor told the employee, "You need to do what I tell you to do and not what you think you need to do," this opened the door for an easy route to malicious compliance—and a way of managing the micromanager.
Read on for their account of events and the reactions it generated in the original thread when u/No-Language-7256 shared it with this popular Reddit community.
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