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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I've fretted for a long time about whether I was the fuck up for "micro-"managing someone on my team but this post makes me realize it really was just them. Marketing not engineering.

They would get really nasty when I would feedback with "you can't just make your task names "write marketing email" 5 times, you have to specify what the email is about, and for what project, otherwise I can't check if the email will go out on time.

And also they would go totally off piste - a blog on disaster recovery rigs for data centers came back totally about rebuilding cities after earthquakes, nothing about attacks or power failure or database backups.

I've worried myself for a long time that I was micromanaging and I'm a bad person for it, but it really honestly was them.