'People got passive aggressive': Micromanaging boss asks employees to give more updates, they maliciously comply to prove a point

Any time a micromanaging boss tries to implement something new, the effects are often counterproductive. Take, for instance, sending daily updates. Sometimes, there is not much to discuss, especially with long-term projects that take some time to develop. Another instance is the act of setting up meetings that could just be emails. No one enjoys this, except for your micromanaging boss, of course, who would understand that if he had an ounce of self-awareness.

This thread was posted to Reddit by u/Big-Brown-Goose who explained that his boss did not approve of the fact that there weren't enough updates in the team's group thread. However, OP went on to explain that things were more than productive; it's just that his boss felt like things were only productive if the chat was filled with a constant flow of updates. The problem? Updating everyone takes time, especially when the updates themselves are not material ones. Furthermore, updates are distracting to everyone else in the chat, and the information overload that accompanies a constant stream of updates can easily lead to people missing actually important messages.

The best part of this story is that these employees were completely unafraid to prove to their boss that this idea was useless. How did they do that? They updated him on everything, and I mean everything. That means unnecessary status updates, messages about people arriving home from work, etc. One person in the comments section even suggested that OP should have taken a picture of the restroom whenever he was using it.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more stories like this, here's one about an employee who got in trouble for leaving a little bit early.

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Posted by BenWeiss