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Dealing with a Micromanager
Are you tired of a boss who breathes down your neck and sets unreasonable deadlines? Join the club! I recently quit my job at a marketing agency after nearly 4 years due to my boss’s micromanaging ways. How do you handle a boss like that?
Standing Up for Yourself
When enough is enough, it’s time to say goodbye. I confronted my boss about new strict policies and ultimately handed in my resignation letter. Have you ever had to stand up for yourself in the workplace?
Moving On to Better Opportunities
Two months later, I found a new job where I’m respected and paid fairly. It’s a stark reminder that quitting can sometimes be the best decision for your well-being. Have you ever left a toxic job for a better opportunity?
Share Your Story!
Have you had a boss lose their mind when you finally stood up for yourself and walked out the door? Share your experiences with us! #BossStories #NewBeginnings
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I used to work for an online teaching company. Good hours, Better wage than average and the subject I was teaching was my favorite. Felt like a good fit.
Unfortunately the management was brain dead. -Daily one hour meetings on zoom with zero pertinent info.
-Absurd scheduling of classes while taking zero inputs of teachers (sometimes I got 1 hour classes back to back without a single break).
-An HR body that would peer through all recordings looking for the tiniest slip to correct. A colleague was told not to drink coffee during class. I got reprimanded for having bad posture (I was suffering with spasms during this time. Despite giving the doctors note I would keep getting flagged.)
-A system that was made for lapdogs and yes men where having genuine opinions was discouraged.
-The final straw for me was a company trip. In this trip I saw, my HOD get verbally abused for something that wasn’t his fault. I watched the bosses cronies literally snitch on coworkers for doing RnR their own way (this was supposed to be a working vacation) and finally saw the boss change his words multiple times, eventually trying to pick a fight with me.
By that time I had managed to stick around this job for a year, And despite my unorthodox being the kept me around cause my work was top notch and my inputs helpful. I even did some extra work for them. I got the best reviews of my team. Despite all that this drunk floozy picked a fight with me because he felt I and my friend disrespected him (by starting to drink beer before he had even shown upto dinner)
I got through that trip. Came home. Instantly filled my papers. Now I make around the same salary but working for myself in the art field and having all day to do whatever the fuck I want.
Never regretted it once.
I had 3 straight jobs where the manager was constantly breathing down my neck, wanting to know what I’m doing to be productive. It didn’t matter what was going on. If there was no work in my area it was my responsibility to go find other people and do their work for them.
Realistically what happened was 4 or 5 guys standing around watching one guy work.
My current boss is such a stark contrast. He said to us “I know I can realistically only expect about 5 hours of productivity in an 8 hour day, and I’m fine with that.” He’s also too busy to worry about what we’re doing minute to minute. Love that man.
Your first fuck up was ever agreeing to be on slack off the clock. Never mind months of that nonsense.
ChatGPT?
Good for you. People leave bosses, not jobs. Perhaps he will learn a lesson from this and reevaluate his approach.
Youāre gonna regret this. Only regret is not doing it sooner. Good on ya for getting away from that shit manager.
I had 15 years of production experience before going to our R&D facility. There were four different labs supporting essentially 4 different product types we made. Right out of the gate, I was given two struggling projects. One I fixed and lead successful production trials with, and the other I proved wasn’t feasible and got it shut down. I worked with our plants all over the US, with 2 plants in Canada and 3 in Mexico. I built a reputation of someone that knew how to run production trials and could help give advice with serious production/quality issues. Promotions occurred in batches twice a year. There were postings and emails that went out as to who was getting promotions. I kept track for my last two years and noted that our manager was granting promotions at 1/4 the rate of other departments.
If you went to our website, on the first page, were 3 of our biggest selling products. I was instrumental in the development of one as a team member and lead the development of another project. I ask for my promotion as I was delivering well above my pay grade. No other researcher of my level came close to my accomplishments or workload. I was told it “wasn’t my time”. Another year went by, and same answer. So I started looking elsewhere and found a job with a lot less responsibility and a 30% pay bump. I put in my two weeks notice.
He had the nerve to say he was completely blindsided and that we could have worked this out. No, you had the only 2 chances I was going to give you to promote me and blew it. From talking to my old coworkers, management was pissed at my boss for a while and the department struggled a lot with floundering projects. The production units that relied on my help and had great relations with Research turned on him overnight.
Oh well.
He had a “tough” time choosing which Mercedes to buy.
You should have asked for his car
Reminds me of a fRiEnD who was in a similar situation and he promised $100 to a homeless guy to slash the bosses tires. He gave $50 upfront. $50 after hearing from the grapevine that it happened. I HeArD it sent a clear message and the boss changed his attitude going forward
I worked in a grocery store for beer money in college. Eventually I graduated. Told the boss I needed a raise. I was a college graduate now and I was then only person he had on staff that knew every position in the store. I’d been working there for years without an increase. He gave me something like a 25 cent raise.
A couple days later I got a call from a buddy that worked a factory job that was hiring everyone they could for a few dollars an hour more that I was making now. I went in for an interview on a Friday and they told me to start Monday. On Saturday I told my grocery store boss that I was fine after that days shift. “WHat? No NOtICe?!?” Naw dog, I asked for more money, you declined. I can’t afford to potentially piss off a high paying employer out of “courtesy” for a shit paying employer. Even if I could: why would I spend the next 2 weeks making shit pay when I could be making more already?
Did you tell your ex-boss any of this or will everyone else working for him have to continue to deal with it?
Question, were your lunches still unpaid? Bc if thatās in writing, Iām pretty sure thatās illegal federally, not just in my state. You canāt be made to perform work duties, including being on call, while clocked out for lunch. If they expect ongoing service, they need to pay you for your break time. I also am an hourly worker, so if youāre salaried thatās even further from my expertise. But Iām pretty sure itās illegal to make you be on call while on an unpaid break
I have 1 week left in my notice period. Boss got me on a video call and told me to train them on the system. Told them no. Boss gets all surprised and indignant. “This is not up for discussion” and “you can’t say no”. Kept telling them no. Boss squawks about going to HR and ends the call. That was 2 days ago.
Training people is not my job. If you wanted training you had 4 years to ask. And in any case my 4 years of experience is worth more than 1 week salary. The documentation is out there, go read it yourself. Fire me if you want, but I will give you nothing further.
Worked hard to learn the industry and outperform all expectations. 2nd year of employment, boss says “no raise this year for you”. The harassment and horseshit treatment was already bad enough, but this was a bridge too far. Found a much better job in a couple of months and gave myself the fat raise I deserved. Boss is shocked pikachu when I gave my notice, then had the audacity to ask if there was an offer he could make to keep me. I smugly replied “you couldn’t afford it.”
Should have filed a complaint to the DoL for making people work through lunch and unpaid. Two birds with one boulder.
A company I worked for was sold and the new owners assured me that MY job was safe but I was to fire all five of my teams, one by one. They were upset that I told them I still wanted to take my long-planned two week vacation and will be back to work to deal with it.
Cancelled my vacation, interviewed for a week, and accepted a higher paying, work from home job. Went back in after two weeks and started clearing out my desk and told them to do their own dirty work.
The company folded three months later.
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