Employee uses their manager's own incompetence to end their career: 'My show of assertion crumbled the empire of fear'

Micromanagers usually come in two shapes; the first is a recently promoted technical worker with a deep understanding of the work but with poor interpersonal skills and a deep drive for perfectionism who can't bear to let go of the fact they're no longer doing the work themselves anymore, they cling to their methods depriving their workers of agency and limiting their ability to produce. The second is an externally hired career manager who has no understanding of the actual work and compensates for that fact by changing random office policies so that they have a chance to trip people up and feel like they have some authority. This second group of managers think that creating senseless work and red tape is the same thing as actual productivity, and they can't understand why their worker's actual production is slipping.

Both of these managers can be difficult to work with, but the latter of the two is undoubtably more infuriating, having no real merit or purpose behind their determination to make your life miserable. But, at least in some situations, dealing with the problem is as simple as letting their own incompetence catch up to them (sometimes with a little bit of help.)

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Posted by Brad Dickson

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