So you give me a number of tasks and say to go with it and be creative. But when I come up with (awesome) ideas and start to implement them you shut me down at the last second, pick everything to pieces while you didn’t even bother to come into the office, and use your own (boring) ones. Thanks for wasting my time. —Just Do It Yourself
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2013.
I think you likely stole his/her thunder. No supervisor likes it when an employee outshines them! Keep shining!
I just retired from a job where mundane ideas for graphics always prevailed because the manager had his head stuck in 30 year old clip art books. The two of us responsible for the graphics would beat our heads against our keyboards with frustration, having to complete assignments that were more or less phone book art from the last century – stuck somewhere between 1968 and 1975. I’m so fucking glad to be out of it now. I wish all micromanagers would crawl up their own festering colons and light a match.
Maybe your “awesome” ideas just sucked.
Reverse the psychology… ask for details and opinions; request direction at every turn… “Which fonts do you like (have many samples); I was thinking about this graphic, alternately, we can use this one”.
Research multiple samples online and send an email with the links. Next, send a follow-up email requesting they review them so you can proceed further (don’t give any additional direction); then send a list of questions about their (websites) content, asking vague questions about layout, font, graphics.
Use technical terms so they become confused and then point out the fact they appear to be confused…
There’s a special place in hell where micromanagers go. They are forced to wipe their asses and are told they did it wrong and have to do it again, but with a slight variation decreed by the son of the fallen. For all of eternity.
I know I’m splitting hairs but that isn’t micro-managing, it’s managing however boring and ineffectual it may be. The manager’s job is to overesee and select the best options his/her staff give him or select his/her own (boring) one, that’s his/her perogative.
A micro-manager is more about letting you know you took two extra minutes on your break, your desk isn’t tidy enough, dress code etc. despite the productivity and value one might bring to the company. Managing for the sake of managing IOW.
Sounds like Seagull Management…Bro Tim might be right though, maybe your ideas are not all that and a bag of chips
party in *hillbilly hollow*
OB was probably trying to use nekkid bitches to sell tube socks or bubble gum somehow by using the logic that sex sells.