Woman at work.
Firm adherent to PANIC PANIC SHRIEK PANIC KNEEJERK HYSTERIA WE'RE ALL DOOMED AND ONLY I CAN SAVE THE WORLD principle of employment. If she isn't in control of everything, chaos will ensue because nobody else could possibly have an independent thought of their own.
Not my manager. But refuses to let me get the fuck on with my job with shouty, panicky shrieks at me at all times. The worst thing in the world for anybody to do is to do something DIFFERENT. Like print out letters and then put them in envelopes, rather than print the envelopes and then print out the letters. Her first response to everything is NO, YOU'RE WRONG.
Currently spending more time online sending emails arguing who should take over a task that represent a two minute job for three people than it takes for the three people to do their individual responsibilities. It's 'team playing', apparently. Doesn't feel very teamlike to palm everything off on one person in my opinion - I certainly don't expect somebody else to do my job for me. If it's an obviously easy job, she demands to have it, if it requires some voodoo with Excel, she tries to make somebody else take it on. Also feels that a legal break is a terrible, awful, wicked thing to do because SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN IF YOU LEAVE YOUR DESK. But disappears from her own for four hours at a time because what she does is IMPORTANT.
Has also sent some rather angry emails demanding that I respond to something she had been copied into immediately and that, within 4 minutes, that she had taken on the responsibility due to my inability to do so - when I'd spent the time from receiving the original email looking up the information, written an appropriate reply and had copied her in so she could see I had dealt with it. Which means she'd been typing the angry 'I'LL DO IT THEN' and adding various senior members of staff into the cc line the moment she'd hit send on the previous one.
I don't bite. I merely take a deep breath and continue doing my fucking job. And bitch about it later.