Who here is nano-managed?

[Richardo]

Poll question: 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?