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Boss forbids employee from leaving their desk, refusing to let them work from other locations in the office, employee confronts him: ‘I'm so fed up’

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    Woman works at a desk with a laptop.
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    micromanaging boss won’t let me leave my desk

    my manager is a huge micromanager. like will text my personal phone if i'm away on teams for 5 minutes and will practically beg me to turn my camera on in meetings, even 1:1 meetings. i have 2 offices i can work
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    out of, one where i live and one in the next city over. he works out of the farther one so naturally he requires me to be there for our in office days.
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    now yesterday i was in office and we had a team meeting at like 10am, then some more calls and then a team lunch from like 12-130. after that i had nothing to do until 3 so i went to grab a matcha and moved my stuff to one of the alternative seating areas for my next call.
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    i truly hate sitting at a desk all day, i have a lot of nervous energy and being in office makes me anxious as it is so keeping myself comfortable improves my productivity a lot. and besides there are multiple different seating areas that you can work out of so it's not like i actually can't use them if i want to.
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    anyway he wasn't at his desk when i decided to move so i sent him a message saying id be moving to the couches on our floor and not to be alarmed that my stuff was missing.
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    he was like "are you okay? is everything okay?" and i said yep just wanted a change of scenery for the last call of the day. he said "okay as long as you're okay and participating i'm happy."
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    he was not happy. he gets home last night and sets up a 9am call wayyyy after work hours ended. i join the call this morning and he says "i just have a problem with you getting up and sitting somewhere else. coming to the office isn't just
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    checking the box, it's about bonding with the team and interacting and communicating with others while you're here. you need to be integrated."
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    Hourglass on a Desk of a Woman Sitting in front of Her Laptop
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    i'm so fed up with his comments and demands (he also makes creepy comments to me and knows things about me that i haven't told him before), so i said "you know honestly? that's a crazy demand. i'm meeting the in office requirement
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    by being in the office. the requirement is not to have water cooler chats all day long and to sit next to each other in a tight knit circle, it's about coming in for visibility and participation and i'm
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    doing that." and i guess he didn't expect that response out of me so he said okay well i'll think about that, thanks for sharing. LIKE
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    NO LOL THERES NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT!!! im so sick of this guy, he's a weirdo and a creep and he also thinks he can police and babysit me all day long. not sure how to handle this situation
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    because im relatively new to the company and while i have a lot of expertise in my field i think im definitely still expendable and dont wanna up but man i can't take this treatment anymore.
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    damdrod Start applying elsewhere, as the saying goes, people quit managers, not necessarily companies.
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    X-3-M Document everything. It is always good to have documentation if it gets even worse and HR needs to get involved.
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    PlatypusDream Do it more, so he gets used to it. Use the alternate areas, don't answer after hours, tell him when he's being unreasonable, etc.
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    Morallta What he means by "I'll think about that, thanks for sharing", he means he's gonna target you now. Get out while you can.
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    fddfgs Honestly I'd go above his head on this one, the job is already gone if that doesn't work out so you might as well

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