I have, I did and I coped by becoming a micro-worker, asking his approval for every single thing that I undertook. I told him I appreciated how precise and attentive to every detail he was and I was that way too and don't we wish more of the employees here were that way. Pretty soon he began to ease up and let us do things the way we always had with much more efficiency.

I do. I hate it. Our conversations sometimes go something like this: "I'll be doing that switch upgrade tonight..." 'How are you going to minimize downtime? We can't have the servers going offline. How are you going to make sure everything's working? What kind of testing can you do? Can you do the upgrade but not go live with it until we've thoroughly tested everything? Do we have power for the new one?' "I've been doing this for 15 years Steve." 'Right...let me know how it goes.'

Absolutely hated it with a passion! I spent 22 and 1/2 years in a micro-managed job. I was beat to death with numbers, daily! It's fantastic, not being under that kind of pressure anymore! As far as coping, it contributed to a life-long blood pressure problem, it helped destroy my spine, (trying to cut corners and not lifting right), among other things! It was the main reason I had to retire early! And, unfortunately for my family, a lot of times I didn't cope well. But, they understood and helped me out alot!

I used to work as a typist in an office with four lawyers who all gave me work. Three of them were great, appreciated my, um, editing. Mostly to correct their grammar and punctuation, and make them make sense. If what they intended wasn't clear, I'd go ask them to rephrase it, because if I don't understand it, anyone reading the paper won't either. The fourth lawyer was one of those micro-manager types with his work - he actually dictated punctuation, and insisted on spelling certain things incorrectly. If I fixed his spelling or punctuation (he was extremely fond of comma splices and run-on sentences which ended up making no sense at all) he ALWAYS "fixed" it back, and scolded me. I wouldn't say I hated it, but... well, maybe I would. It annoyed me enormously, particularly since he was a bit of a moron and really didn't know what he was doing. How did I cope? Well, I had another typist working from the same pool as I was, and I would just do my level best to make sure she did ALL the Dave-work. In fact, the other three took to handing me work specifically, so I could fix their things and help them out, and I'd end up with a stack of things requested for me when my co-worker had nothing. But that just made it easier to avoid the moron-boss.

I work with one every single day. I still haven't figured out how to cope. Even her boss has said she's a bad manager..yet she still makes more money than me and does half the work. The lectures about how to do my job hardly ever stop. Most days I just stare straight ahead or continue working while she talks.

Yes Yes - and I handled it badly. I have learned not to retaliate, challenge or try to enlighten. That makes things worse. Trust seems to be the most important issue. I found that once I established trust and just bit the bullet....things eased up a bit. But I still hate it.

Yes, I have many times. I know it sounds bad for me to quit a job, but all but one time I have ended up having to do that. In my opinion a job shoudl be something that one enjoys. I would rather flip burgers for minimum wage and be happy about it, than get a million dollars a year and be miserable with my job. Once I try and talk to a micro-managing boss, if nothing changes I will leave the job. Life is too short to be miserable, after all!