My supervisor is considered a senior in the company, having worked there for 16 years. He had absolutely no experience in knowing what we do, what web design wa

My supervisor is considered a senior in the company, having worked there for 16 years. He had absolutely no experience in knowing what we do, what web design was, etc. In fact, he "transferred" over to my department and became the supervisor and I was the one who ended up training him. While his skillset is that of a perfectionist, in which he is probably great at catching mistakes and being a micro-manager, he lacks some other skills that I would've thought necessary to "supervise" us. In the beginning, he was taking his "old skills" that he knew from his entire time at the company and trying to apply it to his department and it was like he was miserable... because you cannot apply the same rules for our department as others. Almost all other departments work on a "errors made" platform, so if you make an error, it is caught and counted towards you.. we have a high turnover rate in all other departments. Our department, however, has no platform like that where "errors" can be caught by a computer, and are caught manually. So trying to convince him to throw out over 15 years of everything he's ever knew.. aside from his perfectionist mindset was extremely hard for him. It took 2 years just to get him to a point where he started to realize: We are a whole different department that cannot be classed in with all others. Fortunately, he's definitely improved. Sometimes I think its a good thing and sometimes bad... he's always spying on our work before it is done and quickly makes assumptions and goes kind of crazy every so often because he thinks that's what it's going to look like, but as you're developing something... most things never "stay looking" like they would in development phase. So convincing him: "Can you let me finish the product before you start peaking at it?" is something I have to do every so often. He can't be doing too bad, after all, there are two main offices that my company has, and only one person has ever been promoted in the other office, while we've had about 5 people who received "promotions" ... which basically just means a little extra money and a new title called "senior", but it must say something about how he is doing for his team. He's proof that all you really have to do is know people in the company, acquire that status of a perfectionist (and manager), apply for the job, and you can fake it till you make it.