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No thank you. I absolutely detest micromanagement. It's borne from the idea that everyone is stupid and nobody knows how to do the tasks at hand, so they need t
by LocalH 4y ago
No thank you. I absolutely detest micromanagement. It's borne from the idea that everyone is stupid and nobody knows how to do the tasks at hand, so they need to be handheld the entire way. People sometimes know just enough to be dangerous in this regard. I've had a long-term client for whom I've performed general tech support and creative work with Adobe software, for the last two decades or so. When it comes to something he doesn't know how to do at all? He lets me just "do it". However, he knows just enough Photoshop to make working with him sometimes annoying as all piss (although he has pulled back some from that as the years have gone by). It was like pulling teeth to convince him that "72dpi" was an obsolete concept in almost every single situation for web graphics. "Now make it 72dpi" is a phrase I hope I never, ever hear again.
- wildrhythms 4y agoHow did we possibly get to a point where we've let people 'oversee' work that they themselves can't grok, much less do themselves? It's insanity.
- LocalH 4y agoOverseeing the final result? That's fine with me, especially if the working relationship is one-on-one versus part of an organization. It's the mindset of over-estimating one's own competency in the relevant area. We all do it to some degree, at some point in our life, but some are infested with it.