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cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/792581

Overbearing manager means somebody for whom relaxing after doing your job or reading on downtime means lazying around.

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I had a boss that was a constant micromanager. I started compiling lists of questions I had or things I actually needed for him and whenever he would come around I would just hit him with the list. I would even chase him down every time I knew he was in the vicinity. Eventually it got to the point where he would try to avoid me because he didn't want to do any actual work. He just wanted to "supervise" and I was ruining that for him.

Talk about irony, the same guy like to brag about not taking vacation time. I told him that people don't usually brag about their poor life choices. Fuck him. One of us was lazy and it definitely wasn't me.