Alex Buscemi
When Reddit user u/mdlapla shared a story about their girlfriend’s issues with a micromanager boss, it brought back memories of their own encounter with a classic micromanager.
Back in the early 2000s, while working for a consulting company in a dreary basement office, they dealt with a boss who wanted to track every second of their workday.
Despite the existing system working just fine, the micromanager demanded an exact, minute-by-minute log of their tasks.
What followed was an epic tale of malicious compliance that highlighted just how absurd micromanagement can be.
Read on to see how it all played out.
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