Manager demands employee share their calendar, employee deletes it: 'She's either trying to justify firing me, or assigning me other people's work'

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    Manager Made Me Share My Calendar Details, So I Deleted Everything Except Meetings & Holidays Today my micromanager came to my desk and made me give her access to my calendar so that she could see full details of every Outlook appointment. Of course, I complied.
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    After she walked away, I deleted all of the tasks I've ever entered (to make sure I'm blocking off time to accomplish my work during normal business hours), and created a new calendar that I will use to document what I'm working on and how long it takes me to do so.
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    I did leave team meetings, paid holidays and PTO/OOO on the calendar she made me share with her. Hopefully it's not too obvious that I won't be using it in the way she believes will allow her to see how I'm scheduling my workflow.
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    I am salaried, and am very diligent about getting things done between the hours of 8-5 so that I don't get fucked into working on nights and weekends. She has had to pick up work from other Project Managers whose workloads were too much for them to handle. I believe she's either trying to justify firing me, or assigning me other people's work. Now my calendar won't reflect my day to day tasks so she won't know for sure what I'm working on until we run monthly reporting. (I have to track my time
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    Unfinished1 You can also make an invite private so only you can see it even if you share the details of your calendar with somewhere. It puts a lock icon on it so you can tell what invites are private to you.
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    birdofthebird OP I do have a recurring medical appointment that I keep locked as 'Private'. Pretty much everything else is a team meeting. I used to track my daily tasks because it helped me when I had to enter the time later to our software. I'll be doing that in the new calendar I created (which is not shared with her or anyone else in my organization.)
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    coolsam254 You could throw in a few random appointments that are titled something like "failed to sync error code: 0x288374" to mess with her
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    xazraelx1 Start adding interview meetings just to mess with her. birdofthebird OP I like this. I probably won't add fake job interviews, but I can certainly add some ambiguous/confusing subject lines to spike the paranoia.
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    993targa ...and time to look for a new job. Perhaps "job interview" at 6pm might look good on the calendar... birdofthebird OP I am working with 2 recruiters to find a new company. It's been a slow burn though.
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    LostinLies1 In my company we all share calendar's except the CEO is alway blocked as busy. We can make meetings private, but we share visibility with each other.
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    Dennis M1976 I love managers like this. Not me, but a friend. His boss HAD to be included on every email. Hey Greg, ready for break? Reply / cc. Sure Take a walk? Reply / CC. Sounds good Go up to the square or down to the lake? Reply / CC. Let's do the square. Ok. Meet you in ghe lobby in 5 Reply/ CC. OK We could easily wind up with 5 or more messages back and forth that had nothing to do with work. And I always required read receipts
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    spleh7 They way you're doing it is the way I've always done it. I've always assumed my boss can see my calendar if he/she wants, so I enter only work mtgs and holidays. I thought that was normal?
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    birdofthebird OP She wanted to reschedule a meeting today and didn't like that she couldn't see what I had scheduled. She saw when I was busy and saw blocks where I was available, but it bothered her that she couldn't see what specifically the 'busy' blocks were/what I was doing. For context, I had one day blocked off this week do company sponsored community service and I believe that's what prompted her to demand that I share full details. All she could see was one day completely blocked off.
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    Blu_Blueberry14 Add bathroom breaks, lunch, PTO then cancel it. birdofthebird OP I deleted my recurring lunch break too, since there's no set time I have to take it. Now she may never know what time I left/when I'll be back!

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