As an associate, how do you deal with a senior who is a micromanager? How do I professionally tell them to chill. They always make this fake sense of urgency and gives the team unnecessary anxiety.

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Look them dead in the eyes for a few seconds and then say, as patronizingly and slowly as possible without breaking eye contact, "I'll get to it when I get to it."

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How long have you been working with them? From personal experience, once someone above me has seen that the work I’ve provided is clean, they stop micromanaging. Also, the senior could just be looking out for you and making sure you’re getting things right.

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You will appreciate this once you’re a senior. Motivating staff is not an easy task, and sometimes this “false” urgency is the most efficient tactic

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That’s the exact situation I’m in. I keep getting told this should be done ASAP when I know it won’t be reviewed till next week

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Keep in mind- just because something is not getting reviewed immediately doesn’t need that there isn’t a lot to be done on the project. The reason for the urgency may be to move the project along as a whole. I’d suggest having coffee/ something with the Senior and asking more about the project as a whole. You may find there are a lot of pressures from the manager/ partners that the Senior has been trying to shield you from.

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