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I hate micromanagers. I hate them with a passion. You hire me to do a job, show me how to do the job, and get the hell out of my way and let me do the job. You want to come back and check to make sure I'm doing it right? That's perfectly fine. Don't get in my way. Don't try to tell me...

If the final product is exactly what you want, don't fuss at me for doing it a way that isn't exactly the way you would want to do it. If I'm giving you the exact product you want and it's not the way you would do it, don't worry about it.

As long as I'm doing the job safely, which I am, get out of my way and let me do it. There are some people in this world who have to micromanage everything because they let the power of being a manager get to their head. I've been a manager before. I always put myself in the position of the person that I'm managing.

How would I want to be treated? I'm there to help support them. Not to tell them what to do unless I absolutely have to tell them what to do. Usually it's like, this is what I need you to do, go do it. As long as they do it, I'm fine. The best managers are the ones that manage the least. Tell you what to do, let you go do it.

As long as you do it, I don't care how you get it done. As long as you get it done on time and done the right way, that's perfectly fine. I don't care how you get from A to Z. But some managers will absolutely want to make sure you do exactly the way they want to do it. Because for some, even though it doesn't require you to do it that way, it's insane.

And it drives me nuts. It's one of those things that drives me nuts. Another type of manager is a power trip manager. The one that has to act like they have to be powerful. They have to act like they're in charge. The best managers are the ones that are just there to help you out if you need it. They don't have to act like they're in charge. The best managers don't act like they're in charge. They're there to help you out.

They're there to support you. They're not there to be a school teacher to bust you for every little tiny little infraction. If you're there to try and bust people for doing the wrong things, you're not a good manager.

It's one thing to catch somebody sleeping on the job. It's another thing if they're sitting down when you want them to be standing up. Even if the job is better, you're more productive if you are sitting down. But for some reason, some managers act like you've got to sit up for every job.

This takes me back to when I was a cashier at Walmart. For whatever reason, they hated people sitting down. If you weren't actively checking somebody out, they wanted you to go to the front of the aisle for whatever reason. It's stupid.

It's some micromanager who has to complicate something. If the light's on and there's somebody... The main reason they do that is because they've got all that junk in the front there. The impulse buy stuff they want you to buy, which pisses me off.

Because I just want to get my stuff and get going. When I'm at work, I'm very simple. Tell me what you want me to do. Let me do it. You check it when I'm done. If it's fine, run with it. But for some reason, these micromanagers have to tell you exactly how it should be done to the nth degree.

Even though it's a simple task that really doesn't need that. But for some reason, micromanagers drive me nuts. And power-hungry managers drive me nuts. It's like you just want to take your hand and choke them.

Choke the life out of them just to get them out of the gene pool.