Micromanager bans personal phones at his IT team's desks, but his attempt at control backfires when there's a server crash at 4:45 PM on Friday: 'I was just following policy to avoid a write-up'

If you're going to micromanage a team of competent employees, you'd better have a good reason. But it seems that when the nitpicky type of boss steps onto the IT service department floor, suddenly all of those hype-boss books replay in their minds, hypnotizing them into asserting themselves over their inferior employees by taking away privileges. What those leadership books neglect to tell you is that sometimes, your employees need a phone to be reached. 

Turns out, without a cellphone, managers can't get a hold of their employees in an emergency. So when this manager told his employees to leave their cell phones in the car, but never bothered to give anyone a work phone, chaos ensued. Maybe send a pigeon next time there's a server outage? 1929 called, they want their communication techniques back!

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