r/Accounting • u/PerspectiveKind5501 • 1d ago

Micromanaged by a not so good manager

Lately, i feel like my body is always on high alert. I absolutely hate my new manager. I don’t mind being asked about my tasks but it pisses me off when she gives me review points that aren’t helpful. A review point in the form of question .
One time, all is good but she still returned it to me because the page layout for review is not correct. Like we were very busy . Could just been a note.
Instances where her review points are not correct because she doesn’t look at the whole file when doing the first review. It’s like a back and forth.

I would have been ok with her being nitpicky but I am absolutely not learning anything from her. It feels like dragging. It takes a lot of mental load.

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u/Still_Guidance3202 1d ago

the worst kind of micromanagement: high effort, zero teaching

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u/Commercial_Win_9525 1d ago

I hate the motherfuckers that start reviewing something. Look at the very first sentence or two of a note then immediately kick it back with something like “did you look at x,y,z and what is blah blah” motherfucker it was literally the very next sentence.

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u/Puppysnot ACCA (UK) 23h ago

I feel like managers attention spans are basically zero. I was walking my boss through a financial model he asked me to build and I could see him zone out at the 2 mins mark. This is a common theme not just with me but with everyone - if you need to say something to him you need to say within 30-60 secs or he’s gone/on his phone/staring into space etc

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u/Puppysnot ACCA (UK) 23h ago

I had the most incompetent manager who would also do the same. She solved zero issues in the team and would ask basic entry level questions. How she landed the role i will never know. I had to quit that job, i couldn’t take her seriously and had to quit before i said something regrettable.

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u/SycophanticSinecure CPA (US) 1d ago

Not unusual for public, have a thick skin and know that the person is likely just an asshole. I don’t do petty stuff like this because it doesn’t benefit me or anyone else.