Any 60 year olds wanting to retire due to micromanagers half your age.

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I've worked with younger people for decades obviously.
Recently the level of micromanaging from younger staff is driving me nuts.
They must think I'm decripted checking I've had enough to drink or if I've had lunch.
Even questioning things I've done for years.
Ok I do push myself quite hard but surely I know what's best and how to get results.
Btw they are not senior to me .
How do I get them to stop checking up on me.

Not quite the same but I was at a medical appointment and the young woman nurse practioner asked if I had the Internet ( with miming finger gestures) to research which fruits to eat as a diabetic. I was speechless, I know I'm 61 but I look young for my age and I've been using Photoshop for years to design & sell my own printables. I debated whether to tell her that.

And yes, I know which fruit to avoid as a diabetic!
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I was loving my job, had a fantastic manager (in her early 40s) and intending to go to 65 before retiring. Then after a restructure post Covid, I was given a new manager, also early 40s, whose first act before even meeting me was to decline an expenses claim (all legitimate) and after justifying every element, I had to put in a new claim. She then decided I didn’t need a company credit card, despite having a high level of legitimate expenses as part of my job. And on it went for the next 4 years - nitpicking at lots of admin, being unavailable for key decision points and time critical sign offs, dropping the ball regularly leaving me to have to run around at short notice to make sure clients weren’t affected. When I retired at 62 she refused the option for me to physically take my equipment into a local office rather than courier it meaning I no chance to say cheerio in person to long standing colleagues, but she seemed to think it perfectly acceptable to ask me to do a handover call on the day after my last day because she wanted to attend her child’s school event on my last day afternoon. If she’d been a better manager I would’ve have been more helpful but by then I’d had enough and told her no. It did rather sour my final chapter of my career and was completely unnecessary.

It can just as often be about inflexible approaches to colleagues at any age causing friction. But it’s never addressed by senior leadership and can damage the business at times.

I actually did retire recently, several years before I had originally intended to do so. Corporate restructure - as is so often the case - which left me responsible for implementing a huge new regime which I'd had no part in choosing, and which would definitely not have been my choice, since it was not fit for purpose.
Hey ho, they can get on with it. No longer my problem, thank goodness.

If anyone can afford to do so, I would recommend early retirement.