“Micromаnаging: the аrt of overаnаlyzing other people’s productivity to concеаl one’s own usеlеssnеss.” -Redditor

WorkHero can’t take credit for this quote, but it well encapsulates how most people feel about micromanagers. A while back, we saw a Reddit post where an employee detailed how his boss’s request to micromanage clock-in times backfired since the employee was never allied with his manager and was planning to leave the company. After the Robinhood of micromanaged employees everywhere solidified his plans to leave his company, he liberated his co-workers by using the rules of overtime pay, authority, and knowledge of finance to beat his micromanager at his own game.

“We’re all like one big family in this company.”

If your workplace is described as “one big family,” then we can probably expect it to function like most families function: Incredibly imperfectly, with sprinkles of drama here and there. (Or depending on your family, it might be industrial-size canisters of drama. Either way, we encourage companies to avoid describing the culture as “family,” but that’s for another blog.)

“We’re all like one big family in this company.”

If your workplace is described as “one big family,” then we can probably expect it to function like most families function: Incredibly imperfectly, with sprinkles of drama here and there. (Or depending on your family, it might be industrial-size canisters of drama. Either way, we encourage companies to avoid describing the culture as “family,” but that’s for another blog.)