To manage the manager

Sharpie had her weekly meeting with Stepzilla. She calls it her Micromanagement meeting. In this meeting, Stepzilla confronted Sharpie about not letting Stepzilla know about drafts that Sharpie needed her to proof. It had been in Stepzilla’s inbox for five days.

Stepzilla: “You need to let me know when I have something you need.”

Sharpie: “I did. I told you.”

Stepzilla: “But you need to tell me if I forget.”

Sharpie: “I did. I told you every morning that I needed it.”

Stepzilla: “But you really need to corner me and force me to do it or I’m not going to do it.”

Stepzilla: “I need it to the printer by next week, but let me see it again after you make the changes.”

(I'm not even going to say how impossible she's making our job--especially when she takes one week to do something that only takes us one hour.)

Great, so now we have to micromanage our micromanager so that she does the work she’s supposed to do so that we can do our work. I think this comes after her meeting with the Skeksi because she wants us to mess up. If we do mess up, regardless of whether or not it’s Stepzilla’s fault and not our own, Stepzilla will then be able to continue micromanaging us like she always has.