IT Employment

I had a manager who once informed herwhole staff that we were to inform herof everything we did. At the end of each day we were required to send hera log of everything we did. I took her at her word. I wrote down EVERYTHING. If I answered the phone I logged the phone call, the time spend, what they called about. I was sending in three page logs. After One week of this she no longer wanted the logs.

You say you have NEVER heard of someone making the situation better. I resolved it once and for all in my office.

Control freaks can still be conttrol freaks without feeling that they are relinquishing control, even though they are.

Control freaks are often people withoput a commmon sense of reason, therefore it is relatively easy to erverse their game.

As I said, I inundated the controller with a tonne of paperwork. When I called her to review the work, she rarely had any idead of what I was talking about, "That's no problem XXXXXX, I can see you're busy with all the other things you must need to go over." Two weeks later, same thing. Eventually, realizing I would call her and expect her to have revisions or questions, she just told me to handle them myself. By appearing to be lost and in need of her approval, she got over her little control issue and instead did the next best thing for a true control freak, 'DELEGATED' it back to me. By her delegating the work to me, she feels that she is giving me MORE work, thus doing her job, and controlling the paper process.

Sometimes they don't want the info, they don't want to change it, they just need it to look like they are in control of it.

By taking a perfectly fine document and changing it, they are showing that they know best. If you constantly ASK to have a document revised or changed, YOU are in control, they soon get sick of being controlled like this and then delegate the work back to you, thus ultimately controlling the decision once again.

Similar situation here too. My boss wanted anyone who had a pc problem to go to him first so that he could allocate the work to me. So I send everyone here to him, even for things as trivial as change of screensavers. This lasted a week, before he, as you put it, delegated the responsibility back to me.

Heh, I think he got a tiny taste of what its like to be a net admin. You'll be eating your lunch and somebody will just stroll up to you and spill their guts about a their pc problem. I wonder if he may even appreciate what I do around here a little more....nah.

If she's spending so much time re-doing everyone else's job, it makes me wonder when she has time to do her own work! Perhaps she needs more to do... ha ha!

If the answer is nothing, perhaps she's doing this to justify her own job.