to hate being micromanaged

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I've never experienced it before, until starting my current job. In previous roles, I've always been left to it and been fairly independent. But the micromanagement in my current role is so extreme I feel suffocated. Managers must know everything I am doing at every second of the day (they check our screens and make us live log our work), access and read all my emails, quiz me several times a day on what I'm doing, ask for my plans every day, and pull me into a meeting if I am taking too long on something.

Is this normal? I've never had to do this anywhere else.

No! Thisnwould drive me crazy!

No that's not normal. I'd assume they've had a serious problem recently and would hope it calms down after a time.

Start looking for a new job. That’s not normal.

Not normal! I work now in an environment that could easily become like this but miraculously has not - I know other departments are more like how you have described. What’s their justification for looking at your emails etc? Personally if I were you I’d start looking for another job, it sounds unbearable

How horrible. Start job searching. Micromanaging is just distrust of employees and a sign that someone is paid too much with not enough work to do.

Do they do this with everyone?

This is definitely not normal. I went from one organisation where I had worked independently for 9 years to anothwe organisation where I was micromanaged for 7 years and it suffocated me. I should have left after the first week!

Start looking for a new job. I'm not kidding. I had a boss like that and it's hell.

Wow, this would drive me mad and I’d be sacked for being on mumsnet for ages today! Is it a very small company run by someone paranoid?

I've had the opposite over the last few months. Moved from a job where I had been micromanaged for a very long time to one where I'm pretty much left to get on with things. I found it really hard to adjust - kept going to my new manager wanting her to check things and confirm she's happy with emails I was sending or letters I was writing and so on. She's been really understanding and reassuring, and I've managed to adjust now so that I only ask her when it's relevant. I hadn't really realised how odd and suffocating the micromanaging was until I'd left it behind - I think it came up gradually. Thinking back, the micromanaging was intensely suffocating and really dented my confidence and my belief in my skills. I have no idea how I could have prevented it from happening - the only way I got away was by changing jobs.

Sorry, I don't have any advice OP, but you have my sympathy.

@maelstrop Mumsnet in work time?

Sounds very much like my job- very targets driven and you have to account for every moment of the day

ShinyMe micromanaging boss really does a number on you, doesn't it. By the time I got rid of mine, I wasn't even sure what my name is and if I should maybe double-check with her..

This is not normal I have experienced this in my last job where my bosses wife joined the business and micro managed me. I couldn't so much as write an email without being told what I was doing was wrong. It was awful I'm glad I found the courage to leave in the end.

I also had to leave a job like this, I couldn't stand it. I wasted so much time having to "report back" every single thing and updating "work log" type documents all the time, that I didn't have enough time to actually do the job! Cue then even more micro management to "resolve" the problem. I now work for the most laid back person ever! Which is fantastic, and I get a lot more done!