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How do these nut-jobs ever get management responsibilities is beyond me.
I'm dealing with a SC who's up for promotion who is a bit like this SM and a back-stabber. I can see him getting promoted because of how much ass kissing he does to leadership
Look, I used to work for Deloitte for 7 years. You can ask for this in writing but it won’t matter to HR or the director. I would suggest a different strategy:
1. Figure out something super annoying that would be crazy for him to watch you do. Like do something like flip back and forth, back and forth, to different screens with different excel documents or something like that and just say “you’re referencing something” but do it so fast at times that it’s like a strobe light.
2. Ask if he wants to have the audio on as well to hear you ruminate on this stuff. Then proceed to take a very loud fart and/or shit and take your laptop with you. If he wants to complain, just say he himself wanted you all to be more efficient, so you’re killing 2 birds with one stone here and taking a poop while you work.
3. On the call while you share screens, make sure you loudly crunch or eat something. Eat celery, apple, drink water loudly.
Basically what you’re trying to achieve is to make it so annoying to watch you, that he stops. HR won’t do anything. The director/partner won’t do anything.
👆option 1 for sure!
Also, OP this just sucks, sorry. It reeks of low level small business micro-managing. If they have specific concerns about specific individuals, then they need to use their boss balls to call them out privately and work on it with the actual people they are concerned about. But trying to plug a couple holes with a blanket is going to inevitably sink the whole ship. This makes me think they are not confident in their managing abilities and so they think micro-observation will give them the answers they need, which it will not. And it will cause great resentment amongst the regular hard-working folks.
If your one of the regular hard-working folk, come on over to Publicis where this would never be tolerated.
Sounds like a ducking lunatic. Report him to your People Consultant.
I don’t think he will give a duck
Chief
Say no. People like this thrive on steamrolling people and don't expect to be challenged, either he won't push back against you or rail harder in which case you get off the project.
Rising Star
Invasion of privacy. Report to HR immediately. That’s ridiculous
Chief
What a Deloitteful SM you have 😁
OP what you should to is screen share your 2nd screen monitor and have it run an video in loop of you working for an hour straight.
He won't know the difference
Rising Star
What kind of Sm has time for that? He clearly needs more work to do.
Name the Senior Manager. This micromanager does not deserve to climb up the firm and if enough staff say they don't want to work with him firm has no choice but to discipline him.
This SM has too much time on their hands
I would 100% comply, share a specific window in which that 36 hour Rick roll video is on repeat. Geeze, what a child.
Share your second screen and play Netflix!
Pro
Wouldn’t it be fun if your SM is reading this thread?
Someone send him a link! 🤣
This man has great prospects as a security guard for a museum working in the backroom. He can watch screens all day
Obviously a crazy request. Your team might want to get together quickly though because it sounds like the hammer is dropping
Leave in the middle of a project.
You prob have multiple screens so no harm in sharing one
Rising Star
I think some tin foil around your wifi router to really weaken the signal so the screen share can barely function would be a funny thing. 🙃
Chief
I see comments of micro managers justifying their own actions in this thread!
There are so many bad SM’s at this firm it’s wild.
OP- we are still commenting on this thread from 3 weeks ago obviously caring about your situation. Care to enlighten us on what happened? 🤷🏻♀️
May be he is busy sharing his screen to open this..u can just open this post on your screen .let's see if responds
Can his computer even handle that many screenshares?