Blind is full of horror stories and negativity. I admit I joined myself upon a colleague relating such bad but true thread about a person we both knew. So I have recently learned a happy ending story, I thought I 'd share some positivity here. Names, teams are not shared in respect to people s anonymity. Projects are not named either in respect to company confidentiality. Don't ask for them, and if you recognize the event do not share names please. I was not at or in hearing distance of the event so this is a hearsay account. Some details may be disformed due to that. I can only attest that the event is consistent with the personalities and reputations of the people involved. As long as you don't break anonymity or confidentiality above and have corrections to share about account of the event, do share. Some context: there's a woman engineer, top talent, successful history of shipping products, growing influence, etc. Over a decade of industry experience. She's focused on problem solving and not playing politics. Typical reorg after shipping a major release, she gets reorg under a well known micro manager. As the next project is started there's ambiguity all around and the common complaint is that what upper management is asking is just not technically feasible (we are talking laws of physics here, not whether a clever algorithm can save the day). Now micro manager wants to be invited to every meeting and makes it clear to everyone. Not that he has any solution to propose or is manning up to tell the truth. On the contrary he's very conscious about not letting slip to upper management that requirements are in trouble. Meanwhile the project needs to get off the ground so our woman engineer starts talking with peers across teams, drafting what's possible or not, filling gaps where slackers are, and setting up cross team meetings to refine the direction, including micro manager in all invites. Micro manager doesn't decline any invite but also doesn't show up. As the project needs to move people start drafting agreements and decisions in the meetings. Micro manager wants to sign off on any such thing, even 'though he didn't attend (surprise he can't be at two places at the same time). Micro manager raises hell people dared to meet in his absence. In an ad-hoc meeting in hearing distance of the woman engineer office he starts shooting none of the discussions were valid because stakeholders were not present, that the woman engineer might know her field but has no understanding of surrounding areas. And keeps hammering away at her work, competencies and capabilities. Other managers in the meeting are getting very uncomfortable (he's putting down his own report, and further within hearing distance, what kind of person does that crap?) they are also here to confront him on blocking the whole project because of unrealistic request to sign off on everything. Now here's when so many times you would hear the thing been shoved under the rug and everyone act as if nothing happens, staying the hell away from drama fearing the collateral damage from a manager showing his teeth. Pretty terrible right? Not this time! Kudos to the teams and peer managers for stepping up. They didn't stay quiet and faced the issue. They made it clear this is not how we work at Microsoft, to the micro manager and his manager. Many came personally to the woman engineer to apologize for the incident and the unacceptable behavior of her manager, further people showing up to share their support in the following days as the story spread beyond the people at the infamous meeting. So thank you to the Microsoft employees who stick out their necks when witnessing a clear case of managerial insecurity, misogyny and bullying. See something, do something! @Microsoft
What happens next. Did the manager get fired?
How is that a good story? You still have horrible managers who make your life miserable.
You will always have bad people in society. The question is do you do something about it and stop the bad? We should complain when the others fail to do what's right, and celebrate when they take action.
Yeah right. You complain about your manager and survive! That may worked this time, not sure how, but typically that’s a suicide mission, at any company.
Shitty manager for sure but doesn't mean it's automatically sexism and misgony because she's a woman. The manager sounds like a knob who would do that to anyone
This boring big opening no ending story undermines Microsoft more than that manager. What are ms hiring these days....
Wow if this is a good story by Microsoft standards it must be Mordor over there
Summary: Yeah~, one of the 8 thousand crimes is stopped in ms, ppl plz see hope and be proud
I love a happy ending
How is this a good story? Shitty mgr at msft. Duh! No one ejaculated. How is it a happy ending?
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HODL bro