Fast food employees get micromanaging shift supervisor fired by working as slowly as possible: 'We were fed up with her'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 26, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

It may take a detail-oriented person to be a good manager, but a decent one also knows how to discern being meticulously thorough from being unnecessarily over-the-top. This applies to any workplace environment, but it's especially true in a restaurant. Anyone who has ever worked in a high-pressure workplace like this knows that there are always a million things you can be doing at any given moment. The key to getting through a long shift without losing your sanity is to know what to prioritize, one step at a time.

In this instance, we have a supervisor who micromanaged their employees so much that two of them banded together to get her fired. That's how you know you've done a bad job as a boss. If two of your employees are willing to go out of their way to combine forces and ensure that your incompetence is exposed, then maybe you really did deserve it.

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    "Micromanage me? Go ahead, you might not work here anymore after though"

    This happened almost a decade ago when I was a freshman in college
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  • One of the most interesting qualities in the way this micromanager is described is how lazy she was when it came to her own duties. That duality is always fascinating and rings true. The people who are so concerned with how their team members are completing their respective tasks and responsibilities are often the same ones who have the most trouble getting their own work done well. Go figure!

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    I was working closing shifts at a fast food restaurant with a giant M for it's logo. I had made decent 'work friends' with most of my coworkers and shift managers. However
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    there was one shift manager that *no one liked, we'll call her Tracy. She was the least senior and thought she had better methods for closing
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    than the regular closing managers. Tracy liked to make snide remarks about the other managers, and was making life miserable for
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    everyone by whining to the store manager. She was also lazy as . She was put on the closing rotation and we all couldn't stand her. She was
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    always asking the regular employees how to do her manager specific tasks and micromanaging our closing routine. Because Tracy couldn't leave well enough
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    alone we were always late getting out of there. We typically left the building at midnight with the good managers, we never left before 12:30 with Tracy. Store manager wasn't happy about that and told her she needed to get faster.
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    One night she was scheduled with me and my coworker Jane, pretty much my best friend at work and we also went to the same college.
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    Jane and I decided that we were fed up with her ☐ and would let her really feel the consequences of her 'management' style. We
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    agreed to work as slowly as possible and follow her idiotic methods like mopping the lobby from the front door to the bathrooms and then walking over the newly mopped floor so we weren't dragging 'bathroom germs'
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    all over the lobby. We were there until almost 1:00am and still weren't done when Tracy told Jane and me to go ahead and leave. We left and she stayed. Apparently she stayed
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    for at least another hour or more trying to finish everything. Store manager was *not* happy with her.
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    When I came in the next day everyone was whispering about "what happened to Tracy." I think she was transferred to a different
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    store because I don't remember having to work with her again, but some of the managers who floated between stores still talked about her.
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    Madmustacheman McMordor is what we use to call it when I worked there many years ago
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    mattimeomeg OP. YES! It was decent money for a college freshman, but also
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    aquainst1. Yeah, it's called OT and definitely a red flag on the employee expense budget.
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    [deleted]. I had a manager like this at a bowling alley, he denied everyone breaks, refused to train me (when I was put on a shift with him to do training), one day we had a head office visit, and when they left so did he.
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    Osmocide. I just think it's funny how right below this there's a McD's ad
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    BakedAvocado3. There's 7 people in my department 3 of them (including me) are new, everyone else loves to microgement us. Really makes me love my job more when I'm treated like a ten year old. Can't wait to out of this job.
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