micromanager

New restaurant manager insists on following employees around, absurd rule backfires when bartender restocks one item at a time to teach her a lesson: 'Best way to defeat a micromanager'

Isabella Penn

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Micromanager demands to know where employees are at all times by forcing them to report every move on a board, they take it one step too far: ‘Needless to say the board was very short-lived’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I’m the one in charge, so you do as I say': Micromanaging supervisor belittles secretary for years, quits after being proven wrong by them in front of boss

Isabella Penn

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Micromanager locks office supply closet to ‘save costs’ for company, employees retaliate by flooding her with emails requesting supplies: ‘Need a single paperclip? Email’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager enforces new clocking-in rule requiring employees to send four selfies per day: 'It feels unnecessary and uncomfortable'

Ben Weiss

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Employees refuse to cover manager's shift after she breaks her arm, leading manager to take away future shifts from employees who refuse her demands: ‘I assume you don't need money’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I find your lack of faith disturbing': Employee uses on-screen memes to call out their micromanaging boss after discovering they're using spyware to monitor his productivity

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Teacher misread the clock, causing student to rush and fail his midterm, he comes back with a vengeance on the final: 'I thought I only had 5 minutes left'

Ben Weiss

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‘HR was even on my side’: Penny-pinching manager sneakily docks 1 hour per day from employee's timesheet, employee reports her but manager makes excuses to save face

Lana DeGaetano

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Teacher gets back at micromanaging principal by drowning him in nonsensical paperwork until he finally quits: 'I sent him 20 page lesson plans'

Ben Weiss

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'Give me another chance': Employee quits job due to manager's lack of training, a year later same manager asks them to come back, employee accepts the offer

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager boss insists reliable employee finish urgent project by ‘strictly adher[ing]’ to company manual, so the employee takes his sweet time and purposefully flops on deadline

Lana DeGaetano

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After years of carrying the company on his back, employee reaches breaking point when his boss informs him he needs more ‘coaching’: ‘Do you even know how to do the work?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee refuses to respond to boss's email asking to reconsider their resignation, instead decides to air out everything they think about their boss: ‘[You] are useless’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager demands employee cover a 13-hour long shift on their day off, employee refuses and quits job on the spot: ‘I can't stand to go in and see their faces’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss forces employee to accept $1 raise while doubling their workload, employee refuses, informs boss to take it up with their lawyer: ‘He lost it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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