[antod]

Not directly related to your comment, it just triggered a random reflection on micro management...

Being micro managed as a manager is even worse than as an IC - there's a certain level of badgering you have to pass on so you can satisfy higher management, and there's a limit to how much of that you can filter. So you get micromanagement of yourself plus the extra shitty feeling of having to do it to others.

[AlwaysRock]

I got out of management for this reason. It was far easier to do my work and otherwise be left alone as an IC. As a manager there were so many meeting that were just there to tell my manager how my reports were doing. It was incredible how much time I spent just relaying tiny updates up and down the chain. Time that could have been spent doing work.