My boss LOVES to micromanage but hates giving directions. It's all "figure it out" until I actually do something, then it's all wrong. Anyone else stuck in this impossible loop?

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Yes, we’re in a similar and complicated situation ourselves. Either way it’s only hurting the company in the long run. Hopefully someone has some advice for us!

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OMG I felt like I was reading a post i wrote about a year ago. My advice, start looking. These kinds of people leaders do not change they only get worse! In my situation, mine was a micromanager who wanted people to perceive her as a transformational leader (which she wasn’t), so rather than giving directions she would say just do it how you think, then you return the finished product and it’s not right but no instructions on what she was looking for. It was such a mess, she basically wanted psychics as direct reports.
Since last year, I’ve found a new role, at a new company. I didn’t receive a huge bump in pay making this change, but its still been so worth it. My new leader is actually a transformational leader and i couldn’t be happier. My new leader also just informed me that she’s giving me a significant raise and changing my title in the fall. They’ve also agreed to pay for me to get certified as PMP and Change practitioner which should help me to eventually break out of the admin field and into the PMO to ideally have a career path long term since that doesn’t really exist for this function any longer unfortunately…

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