Who here is nano-managed?

"I have eight bosses, Bob." "Eight?" "Eight."


OK, I don't have eight bosses but I do have two - one, my direct supervisor, the other, our department VP, who my supe reports to.

VP manages by redundancy and nano-management - which is by definition 1,000 times worse than micro-management. He'll independently go around assigning the same project to at least two people, then hound you for the results, tell you you're not doing the task correctly, tell you how to do it, then make you sit in his office while he creates an excrutiatingly detailed outline of every step you must take to do it his way:

1: Go back to your cube.
...1.1 Get up from chair
...1.2 Extend left foot
.......1.2.1 Shift weight to extended left foot
...1.3 Extend right foot
.......1.3.1 Shift weight to extended right foot
...1.4 Continue 1.2 and 1.3 until you arrive at your desk
...1.5 Sit down facing terminal.
2: etc etc
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The kicker is, now he's insisting his Director (my supe) manage in this exact same way, and she's insisting I manage my team members the same way ("Did x get the permits?" "I asked her to." "Better ask y to get them also.")

Anyone else being treated like they are 3-year-olds for a living?

He frets over every single thing that comes along. Makes a mountain out of every molehill.

I could give hundreds of examples


He stops in the process of describing how he does a task (he is the only one who has ever done this job-he has been doing it for 25+ years) to point out that you need to STAPLE the forms together at this point...

He instructs by the exception not the rule that covers 99% of the task

When opening up a spreadsheet he opens Excel THEN the spreadsheet. Never and I mean NEVER is more than one open at a time.

He will be out of here at the end of the month.

when the person trying to micro- or nano- manage you has very little concept of what it takes to do what it is you do.

My boss just came by and said he's working on the assignments for the first two weeks of class and that he's hoping we can have them posted before noon.

Um, they're not done yet, and you think that they're going to be up and running in less than two hours?

Yesterday, I had to post the assignment for 2 class sessions, and two sections of students and it took me all afternoon.

What this guy is working on is for 6 class sessions, and 10 sections of students.