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

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Jun 12, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Time management is an important skill when it comes to your working life. It's a huge determining factor in ensuring that you get enough done and get it done on time. Prioritization and organization are key components here, preventing you from feeling overwhelmed even in the face of a long to-do list. Meanwhile, organization ensures that you can maintain efficiency without getting in the way of yourself, keeping stress at a minimum.

Of course, it's only natural for your manager to share an interest in what you're up to and spending your working hours doing. But, still, as with anything, a little agency goes a long way… and hounding your workers to share their schedule with you—especially with a negative connotation and intent to micromanage—is only going to push them further away from willing transparency.

This worker's boss insisted that they share their schedule with them, prompting the worker to delete it entirely since they had been keeping their personal schedule with their work schedule… The takeaway here folks is to make sure you never mix your personal information with your work, things can only end poorly.