Your ways of handling a Micro-Manager

[z1ggy]

Plan on meeting at 0800. I want to know where you stand with the new project you're starting today. I've booked conference room 03B. Bring beer.

Well, he's not even in right now, but I already have my morning status pitch ready for him.

It wouldn't be so bad if I could just send a daily email...Idk why the guy has to sit in my cube or drag me into his office for something so simple.

Multi-tasking is a myth to begin with.

Human brains do not operate that way, why driving while talking on a phone is so stupid. It's been proven many times, all you're doing is switching from one task to another and probably not doing either well at that point.

I agree. Generally speaking, multitasking ends up netting you less throughput when you have a substantial amount of time. A lot of people don't seem to understand or believe that however. And when those people are above you, it can make life difficult.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I left my last place because of that. The IT manager (not really my real boss, but person I reported to) was not only a huge asshole but he was a micro manager to the max. At one point he actually wanted us to keep a log of every single thing we do, it was ridiculous. I started putting down when I go to the bathroom and everything. I'd even put down actually updating the log, just to show how much time I spent just doing that.

 

[sourceninja]

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[Zodiark1593]

Write a macro that auto sends messages at w/e interval you set. Generic messages work, even something like "writing new auto-reply macros".

 

[shabby]

Just copy and paste the same reply over and over again.

 

[brianmanahan]

Your ways of handling a Micro-Manager

i take a microscope with me to meetings so i can see him

 

[Zodiark1593]

Multi-tasking is a myth to begin with.

Human brains do not operate that way, why driving while talking on a phone is so stupid. It's been proven many times, all you're doing is switching from one task to another and probably not doing either well at that point.

I'd probably call multi-tasking the equivelant of Hyperthreading.