I'm on my second manager in my three years here and the fact that both feel/felt the need to micromanage my every move is driving me nuts! Am I just that unlucky to get two managers in a row with the same (annoying) management style or is this a company issue?
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If customers aren’t buying, renewing, want to be marketed to, or just spoken to by Riverbed then what can a riverbed employee do other than twiddle your thumbs. Micro managers are just bad managers period, can’t motivate their people so they rule through fear and anxiety; they’re Losers
I personally only micromanage only because I know my minion doesn’t know how to do his work, leaving me no choice but to keep him afloat so I am afloat with my overlords. I can only help so much and can’t fix motivation where there is none. My minion also has a problem he lets his ego get in the way of asking me for help. I can’t fire his sorry a-s, so I’m stuck with dead weight.
But I could be wrong about all this. We started to track people’s efforts in a ticketing system and having then fill in proficiency/skill matrixes. In other words, show me where you suck so we can sack you.
Are you sure you aren’t really just lazy?
Just send him minute by minute accounting of time until he/she screams uncle.
Micro managers are insecure, have never been taught how to correct mentor.
They think management means they are in a higher plane, and one should beat everyone into submission. Sad really.
The company is floundering so management wants to look like they're doing something.
But the problem is at the macro level. We have nothing new, interesting, or valuable to sell, so revenue is going to keep falling. No amount of documentation, planning, or execution at the individual contributor level is going to change that.
It's very unfortunate for the people who have to do this useless extra work and feel stress for no reason.