Tech IndustryAug 30, 2019
Newold🧘🏽‍♂️

what pisses off your (micro)manager the most?

i’ll go first - missing a story in a sprint - not respecting their authaareetee all managers are micro-managers. amen! p.s. what survival strategy have you developed?

Apple MappleSuck Aug 30, 2019

You Quit! Life is too short, GTFO.

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old🧘🏽‍♂️ OP Aug 30, 2019

That’s my only goal and objective

Uber MrMephist0 Aug 30, 2019

Quit, move teams or wait till they do the same or retire. My strategy was to start interviewing but luckily she retired.

Amazon kDyEf Aug 30, 2019

You already said top two. Third is, if you do not reply to messages in a minute, for every new message in 30 mins asking for the progress.

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old🧘🏽‍♂️ OP Aug 30, 2019

Nailed it. I noticed this in their interaction with other members in the early days, then started like live blogging on jira while fixing a prod issue. Even that has had it’s downside, but mostly been ok. Surprised it is similar at Amazon - different from what I am reading about LP for on-site.