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Proud employee sitting at his computer in the office.
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Frustrated boss sitting at his desk.
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Bosses love the idea of micromanaging because every leadership book they've ever listened to before bed and every alpha podcast they have running in the background of their minds tells them to. Slackjawed and marveling at their own might, bosses believe that they should wield their power in the workplace with an iron fist, which of course, doesn't mean delegation or trusting your workers; to them, flexing their prowess means initiating time-wasting rules in an attempt to keep tabs on everyone's productivity, hoping that the stress of personal reporting keeps people in line.
Well, well, well, my friend, the boss in this next story clearly underestimated how petty office workers can be and realized a little too late that when he was giving orders to report, he was going to receive some well-executed, highly detailed reports on people's non-work-related tasks. Turns out, workers do a lot on the job that has nothing to do with spreadsheets and figures, but the boss didn't realize how many personal details would be revealed in the process.
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Empty desk in the workplace.
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All this worker had to do to get the boss off his back was flood his DMs. There's one thing bosses hate more than anything in the workplace, and that's correspondence with their underlings. Suddenly, the big boss had way too many messages to reply to, thus doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling his workload.
And everyone knows, once the boss's workload is affected, policies are going to be quickly turned on their heads to return their weekly task lists back to zero.
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