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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
3 Answers
- linkus86Lv 76 months ago
Yes. You handle it by asking for his advice/expertise on how to deal with someone else similar to him in the company. This will passive aggressively address his own behavior without you saying a word about him to him. It works about 85% of the time.
- EvaLv 76 months ago
Don't answer his messages after your log-off time unless it is an extremely critical issue. Minor things can be taken care of in the morning. Don't work way past your log off time either. He keeps doing these things because you respond. You and your co-workers need to get together and adopt this policy. In essence, you have to retrain your boss. If his methods aren't working, he will be forced to change them.