Senior manager wants everyone on the team to open a skype chat session and shares screen with him for the day so he can monitor what everybody is doing. Is it ok to ask him send this request in writing?

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How do these nut-jobs ever get management responsibilities is beyond me.

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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

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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.

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👆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.

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I would say No, escalate, and log off for the day as a “mental health day”.

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Ask them to confirm in email. Casually mention it to your coach/partner if possible. Plug in a webcam and point it at a bad angle. Make some bad habits and randomly cut it off for a few minutes at a time and make them tell you to turn it back on. Skype never works properly. Good luck!

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Your team members should try video calling the manager individually AT THE SAME TIME. See how his computer crashes

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No.

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IRONIC that they wants to share screens and monitor you for productivity. Is monitoring a team of screens productive or really that valuable? NO!

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Lmao so what if you just said no? I would just respond “no” simple. 😂 might be ideal to apply for jobs asap.

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This is crazy. Hard no.

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What an ass

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Change your system font to Wingdings once you share your screen

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Just say okay and have multiple monitors. Share only one monitor and pretend to surf amazon all day. When he/she calls you, say you were watching them to see if they were watching you

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Thats psychotic

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This is so wild lol I can hear the helicopter blades turning

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Put your Skype status as “Sharing Screen with Senior Manager” 😜

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LOL?

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It’s not ok to ask him like that and now days problem is HR especially junior ones are puppets and even if they want can not do much. Still good leaders are there better to escalate to top leadership jointly. Big 4 culture looks like getting spoiled everywhere due to lack of leadership quality. People should be motivated to deliver business objectives and personal space should be given to team , as everyone has their own pace/capability to deliver things.

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You work for a consulting company, just politely say that makes you uncomfortable don’t do it and find a new project.

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Oh wow. What era is this SM living in? Well, just share a random screen that isn’t the screen where your work is being done.

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lol how does an SM have time to monitor people’s screens? Obviously not doing enough work.

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What? That SM has way too much time on his hands!

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Hahah what office is this in? Incredible

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