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Re: How do you deal with a micromanaging supervisor?
DIR By: Celestia
Date: October 15, 2018, 3:20 pm
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In my case....get fired. The last in a long chain of manager
turnover at my old job decided that when one employee was having
a problem with a task, the solution was for the entire 8-person
department to change the way we all did it, no exceptions. Long
story short, I ultimately talked to her boss about it as part of
a check-in, told them that I intended to do my work to the best
of my ability in the methods that work the best for me, and was
fired for insubordination.
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Re: How do you deal with a micromanaging supervisor?
DIR By: Rose Red
Date: October 15, 2018, 4:14 pm
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> If you haven't already, google the "hairy arm technique." The
gist is you make an obvious mistake on purpose. If you satisfy
the micromanager's need to critique something, they're more
likely to leave the rest of your work alone.
>
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This sounds strange. I would think this will make the
micromanaging even worse since you've proven yourself to make
mistakes.
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Re: How do you deal with a micromanaging supervisor?
DIR By: Aleko
Date: October 16, 2018, 2:18 am
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If you do google "hairy arm", its proponents rightly point out
that it is only applicable to a specific kind of person; the one
who feels they need to make an intervention or correction to
justify their existence or demonstrate their alertness and
hands-on-ness. (My DH wouldn't dream of putting in a project
proposal to his Director that didn't include one
nice-but-not-totally-necessary frill that she can cut out and
thus feel (a) efficient and cost-conscious and (b) visibly in
control of her subordinates.)
But if the micromanager is just a worry-wart, I agree that
spotting a mistake in your work will only make them worse.
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Re: How do you deal with a micromanaging supervisor?
DIR By: Chez Miriam
Date: October 16, 2018, 7:35 am
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> The micro manager I worked for would give me two different
orders to find prices of product and and write up wholesale &
retail prices. No matter what one I selected and started on she
would tell me to work and the other one 1st. I learned to ask
immediately " What is more important to start on; A or B?"
> She miro managed because she was a bully and bullies back down
when confronted.
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> The one time I had already began a huge spread sheet she came
over and told me in detail how to display all the information in
a way that made sense to her but not to me. I politely listened
and calmly repeated "THIS system works for me" several times
until she backed off.
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I've had success with asking similar questions: "which thing -
TrulyCriticalThing A or NearlyAsCriticalThing B - do you want me
to stop (so that I can colour-code the paperclips)?" together
with "who are you going to assign A/B to whilst I colour-code
the paperclips?"
Sometimes reminding a micromanager that you're already doing
something business critical can help them ease off a bit...
Good luck!
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