‘I got paid for doing nothing’: Micromanagers tell a funeral home receptionist to stop answering the phone, then chew them out when they follow orders, end up alienating their hardest worker

These micromanagers really took the "FUN" out of the funeral home. There are a few jobs in the world nobody wants to work, so when you find a hardworking receptionist who helps out the team and goes above and beyond, especially in the mortician/cemetery field, you better hold onto them tighter than the skeleton grips their heirloom pearls. 

Yet in their attempt to micromanage their best employee, these silly bosses managed to push away the one person who was willing to work extra hard in a tough field, all because they were too proud to admit they were wrong. 

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