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How to Micromanage a Micromanager

Micromanager

Found this article on LifeHacker… Basically, how to micromanage a micronanager…

Keep an Eye on Your Boss’s Priorities and Stick to Them to Manage Your Micromanager

Working for a micromanaging boss can feel like being in an unhealthy relationship, but you don’t have to cringe in fear or keep your head low hoping that you don’t attract their attention on a given day. Often, micromanaging bosses are simply under pressure themselves to meet shifting deadlines, and lack the empathy to understand how their behavior influences others. If you pay attention to the meetings they’re going to and the changes in their workload, you can adapt to the things that stress them out so they’ll stop bothering you.

via Keep an Eye on Your Boss’s Priorities and Stick to Them to Manage Your Micromanager.

What you do when you’re not doing what you should be doing

Survey says! Workers in Canada waste 19.2 weeks a year wasting time at work.

Here are the the most popular at-work activities (time wasters):

  • Hanging around the coffee area
  • “Going for coffee”
  • Smoking
  • Hiding in the rest room
  • Gossiping
  • Complaining about the boss
  • Making personal calls
  • Daydreaming
  • Flirting
  • Surfing the web

So I guess “conscientiously paying attention to every detail of our jobs, as to not hamper in anyway the company’s ability to generate revenue” is not a really popular at-work activity?

Top five signs it’s summer at work

It’s a short week thanks to having Monday off. It’s already Wednesday and I love short weeks in the summer because so many people are on holidays and everywhere you go it’s TEMPS, part-timers & newbies… Mike’s top five signs it’s summer at work.
#5. Same DJ appears to be on anytime you turn on the radio.
#4. Usual polite smiles replaced by a lost-stares .
#3. The guy who delivers the paper out ranks everyone.
#2. Instead of the coffee cart, it’s the Pina Colotta cart at the staff meeting.
#1. All calls to anyone above supervisor are forwarded to the PG Golf and Curking Club.

Top five ways for bosses to show appreciation for employees

The first Friday of March is always considered Employee Appreciation Day. Mike’s top five ways for bosses to show appreciation for employees.

#5. Keep your depreciative comments and constant belittling down to once or twice an hour.

#4. Quit it with the Cape Canaveral countdown at 4:59:50 everyday.

#3. At today’s staff meeting make an effort to get one or two names right.

#2. Stop muttering the spell ‘exspellus terminus employee-us’ every time you walk past an employee.

#1. Try the 40 pack of Timbits once in a while (the 20 pack just screams ‘cheapo’).