'Proof or not, there’s a perspective you are not at work': Boss accuses a hybrid employee of skipping work, so they respond with detailed daily reports of all of their activity, boss backtracks immediately

"Your proof isn't proof."

That's essentially what this micromanaging boss claimed after accusing their top salesperson of bailing on office hours. Although they were a hybrid employee, spending much of their time out of the office on business meetings and in the field, the big boss still wanted to assert himself over their daily tasks. Okay then, so be it. 

Have you ever had an employer that wouldn't stop looking over your shoulder? Strangely, the higher up the micromanagement, the less that person actually achieves in the workplace daily. Once upper managers and big bosses start nitpicking the daily routines of their foot-soldiers, you know that nothing is being achieved up top. Because when you're too busy looking at someone else's plays and scrutinizing every work decision, there's no way you have a grasp on your own business.

Keep scrolling to read how this employee got back at the big bosses for wasting their time staring at his time-sheets with a magnifying glass. 

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  • One of my first jobs was at an old-timey ice cream shop. I was 15, scooping ice cream for minimum wage, and texting my friends on my break, so I wasn't exactly an overachiever (yet). The owner of the shop, however, was not the type of leader to inspire confidence in their workforce, continually diminishing everyone's work and scouring security footage to make sure every maraschino cherry and chopped nut topping was accounted for at the end of the night. Even as a teen, all I could think was that this boss wasn't actually doing any boss work becausee they were too busy being a topping detective, and it turns out I was right. The business went under, proving that a little trust in your trained employees goes a long way!

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  • "I am now sending daily today and previous summaries report, aka TPS Reports."

    Today, my boss accused me of not being in the office for work for the last few weeks. Now mind you, I work in a sales job, I am in the office daily just not all day
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  • because I do offsite meetings. I provided proof of my computer logins showing my locations and was told "proof or not, there's a perspective you are not at work"
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  • So I decided I will start sending today and previous summaries, also known as TPS reports to provide what I did today and previously. I sent an email
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  • advising of this plan and provided steps on how to make a Microsoft rule for it to forward to a folder. Needlessly to say, my boss responded with that TPS reports will not be required. And if he needs future clarification, he'll let me know.
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  • NSMike "Your proof isn't proof" is a good indicator that they're looking for things to pin on you. I don't wanna scare you, but I'd keep my resume updated.
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  • flipthediscobikky Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. Or the Tuesdays for my Aus brothers, get at it boys!
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  • DoctorFenix Ahhh the good old "Perception" bulls For my last employer I was in a salary role where I had to put in a lot of extra time.
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  • There were post-work events that I would be in the office planning for all day, and then staying as late as 11pm attending, or there were tasks I had to complete that had me onsite upwards of 14 hours in a single day.
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  • Alot of times I would just text my boss and say "I was in 14 hours today. I'm coming in an hour late tomorrow" and it was never a problem.
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  • Except for the hourly employees who HAD to come in at 8am and leave at 5pm. They had a perception that I would just come in late whenever I felt like it, and would b about me specifically when they were written up for coming in late.
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  • One of them had the nerve to claim it was racism that I could come in late and she couldn't, not knowing I was working 50-60 hour weeks and she was only putting in 40. She got fired, and deserved it. Office perception is stupid.
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  • Jgibbjr "A perception" perceived BY WHO?! sounds like someone above him is on his a, or, your coworkers are complaining about you to him.
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  • Mikey6304. My boss's boss's boss had me sending him TPS reports for a year and a half, with weekly meetings to critique them. My boss's boss finally got him to back off about a year ago. Boss's
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  • boss's boss brought it up last week that he wants me to start doing them again. I live in the deepest darkest bowels of micromanagement h_l.
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  • SuspiciousMeat6696 Boss: Per your specific instructions to not leave the office, our potential client has now signed a multi million dollar deal with our biggest competitor. As you explicitly stated, I will remain in the office moving forward.
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  • Hot_Aside_4637 Hide his red stapler. Seriously, if you are in a sales position, it's all about sales numbers. Shouldn't matter where you're at if the numbers are good.
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