Micromanagement

During breaks and lunch I sit with some of the women I work with and we chat about life and work and stuff. They are all older with kids about 10 years younger than I am. They're really nice and I enjoy hearing about the things they go through in their lives.

We mostly like to complain about work and our supervisors because, to be honest, they can be quite annoying. My new boss is what they like to call "Micro Management." I wasn't quite sure what that meant, so I looked it up on Wikipedia.

In business management, micromanagement is a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of their employees, generally used as a pejorative term. In contrast to giving general instructions on smaller tasks while supervising larger concerns, the micromanager monitors and assesses every step.

Micro-management may arise from internal sources, such as concern for details, increased performance pressure, or insecurity. It can also be seen as a tactic used by managers to eliminate unwanted employees, either by creating standards employees cannot meet leading to termination, or by creating a stressful workplace causing the employee to leave.

Regardless of the motivation the effect can de-motivate employees, create resentment, and damage trust.

Micromanagement can also be distinguished from management by worker to boss ratio. Any time there is one worker being given orders by one boss, both people are rendered useless. When a boss can do a worker's job with more efficiency than giving the order to do the same job, this is micromanagement.

Yeah, that basically sums up my boss, though not to the extreme. She can be pretty cool sometimes, but it seems like one of those things that she's really cool and tries to be your friend to get information out of you.

Anywho, tomorrow night is Girard's going away party thing. We're going bowling! So it should be a lot of fun. This is the 2nd time Girard is moving away. Last time he moved to Va. and now he is moving to Ca. I wish him luck in his new job!