I am painfully reminded of my first section meeting with the worst micromanager I ever had to endure. His goal was for the group of us to come up with a section “purpose statement.” The entire meeting was one suggestion after another, after which the manager would say “that’s really good, but what I really hear you saying is …”. When the meeting was over, we had magically arrived at the purpose statement he had written before the meeting had ever begun.
This happened to me once. A group of us were asked by the leaders to be thinking of ideas for a project they intended to undertake. We would have another meeting a week from then. I spent much time that week coming up with an idea and I thought it was a good one. At the meeting the leaders had already planned out everything and all they wanted the rest of us for was to tell us what our part would be in it. I was very angry that they even asked us to think of ideas only to plan everything out without our input. When I dared to complain about having wasted my time during the week, which could’ve been used for other things I got the stink eye.
Yeah, Marla is acting like Stuart this week. She coerces Scott into discussing this against his will with him and swiftly rejects all of his ideas because hers are clearly better. How is that any different from how Stuart treats her?
I am painfully reminded of my first section meeting with the worst micromanager I ever had to endure. His goal was for the group of us to come up with a section “purpose statement.” The entire meeting was one suggestion after another, after which the manager would say “that’s really good, but what I really hear you saying is …”. When the meeting was over, we had magically arrived at the purpose statement he had written before the meeting had ever begun.
This happened to me once. A group of us were asked by the leaders to be thinking of ideas for a project they intended to undertake. We would have another meeting a week from then. I spent much time that week coming up with an idea and I thought it was a good one. At the meeting the leaders had already planned out everything and all they wanted the rest of us for was to tell us what our part would be in it. I was very angry that they even asked us to think of ideas only to plan everything out without our input. When I dared to complain about having wasted my time during the week, which could’ve been used for other things I got the stink eye.
Yeah, Marla is acting like Stuart this week. She coerces Scott into discussing this against his will with him and swiftly rejects all of his ideas because hers are clearly better. How is that any different from how Stuart treats her?
I agree..
Marla is *so* going to have to bring along her Elasti-Girl costume AND quote the movie on this trip.