Is my boss a micro manager? ?
My team and I are finding it hard to deal with the manager of our team. There are small little tasks that I know how to do and he will insist I run them by him all the time. Even though my day is full he keeps adding tasks for me, I have often stayed logged on way past my log off time and he has IM’d me to ask questions and not mentioned that it is 9pm at night and am I struggling to keep up with the work he is giving me? He can be very OTT with his reactions to small human errors and in one email at 10pm at night,
he asked me “what my problem was”? And in comparison to errors other ppl in the company make (like losing a client 80,000) this was very small, it was that I’d sent a customer the same letter twice.... a big complaint about him from my co workers is that we will be in the middle of very important tasks and he will call on skype to spend 45 mins discussing what we all agree could’ve been an IM or email. Also even though our tasks are very regimented he will say “now Mary, do this this and this ok?” And it’s the same thing Mary does and knows to do every day....it’s just very patronising, also he will speak over us when we have a point, we are a team of 5 women and him and on morning calls he will take a point someone has said, twist it and repeat it as if it was his idea, I just find him infuriating and I don’t know how to let him know that his style of management isn’t constructive but not sure how. Please don’t call me lazy in the comments, just asking for advice