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    Micromanager locks office supply closet to ‘save costs’ for company, employees retaliate by flooding her with emails requesting supplies: ‘Need a single paperclip? Email’

    Some managers need to feel like they have all of the control over their workers. That compulsive need often leads them to ludicrous decisions that make absolutely no sense. But since they are so focused on their power trip, and generally don't care much about their employees, no one can stop them from making those decisions. Decisions that often do not benefit their place of work.

    It is honestly amazing that we are in 2025, and bosses still fail to understand that micromanaging only pushes employees away. Employees these days often do not cave to the controlling behavior of their bosses, and they have no problem finding a way to get their bosses off their high horses. 

    Take the employees in this story for example. Their Karen manager decided the office spends too much money on office supplies, so she took it upon herself to find ways to save costs–Surely we all know that buying one less box of pencils or Post-it notes can really save companies from financial struggles.

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