I am having a hard time of my career dealing with worst manager. He is a micro manager. He wants the team to come to office everyday on time between 10-4:30, but actually wants us to stay late in office. He himself comes at 11am and leaves around 3:45 or max by 4pm. Always criticize and never appreicates the achievements. Sets unrealistic goals and expectations. I am at Staff level QA. I am the owner of 6 features/applications, maintain automation framework and working on to set up a monitoring tool which itself is very challenging. We have a release every week and I have to focus on testing for 4 days a week. I get only one day to focus on automation and monitoring tool, this slows down the development of automation and monitoring tool. My boss is of the opinion that I should learn how to manage time. Basically he wants me to work late hours which he couldn’t say directly. I am trying very hard to complete everything that he is expecting me to do because of no time left. 4 days I work on testing for the release 5th day I am asked to give automation status. When I start focusing on automation, then asked to look into test tickets. This has been going for a while now. Can anyone suggest how to deal with such type of bosses?
Keep everything on paper, ask all orders n work related stuff on paper, also ur results n daily work also document, i learnt that in Amazon with very hard lesson. In Amazon manager sucks big time, more than urs manager
Micro managers are the worst
Change teams or companies, you really cant do much else. You definitely aren't going to change the manager, and the company certainly won't get rid of him over you.
You’re right, that’s what I feel. But I joined 5 months ago, was wondering whether I should stay for some more time and try to work with my boss or change team internally. Leaving company will always be the last ultimate option plus I have to start from scratch again, again spend time in the new company to accumulate PTOs.
Every day you spend under that manager is a day you could be spending "accumulating PTO" at another company. And frankly, that's a ridiculous reason to hesitate leaving imo.
Wtf, is Tesla the only company in Bay Area? Just get out, plenty of great opportunities
I was in similar situation few days back. Working in such environment eventually have toll on personal life. Try to make a plan to change the company or at least team. Look for a good manager.
Seriously, even when I am at home, I constantly think about my day at work, my encounter with my manager, his comments which are really demotivating. After this long weekend I went to office with such a happy mood and had 1-1 with my manager and got a restless night. This sucks big time. And it’s not just me, my team mate is also facing the same thing.
This thoughts will send u in depression, i had same journey for 5-6 months before i pulled my self out of this, don't think much sometimes ur time is not right, so just work as much as u can, document everything, go home have some puff or drink wine and relax, remember we earn money to spend good life. Don't ruin ur mental health.
I am following many questions related to Amazon currently and saw many people are in dev plan or frustrated, is this amazon being frugal and is this amazon way of layoff people???
"Vote with your feet" (c) IMHO these kind of managers will only learn if people leave them, you can do nothing - when you get into such environment just leave ASAP and don't even put it into your resume if it was a 2-3 month role (our Director of SRE was fired after 3 months, because a friend of CTO arrived to his position, so he didn't even put our company name into his resume or linkedin, because it's a shame of a place, and the 3 months are nothing, just skip it and go to a good place). If you already work there a long time, try to talk with the skip and explain that you'll leave soon if they don't transfer you to another department to work on other projects. This point will hurt your manager, he will start adjusting himself, it does hurt.
If possible interview your manager and peers, as only then will you have a true expectation of what you are walking into.
Ya... that doesn’t sound bad at all
Yeah, that’s the core hour that he wants the team to be in office but no rules are applicable to himself.