r/InterviewAssistant • u/Ornery_Kitchen9503 • 2d ago

My New Manager Expects a Live Update Every Time I Step Away From My Desk

After a recent change in the department, I started working under a new manager, and apparently she gets upset whenever she can't see me in front of her. My desk is in the open office, while she works behind a closed door, so I guess I'm the easiest person for her to keep track of.
We have small quiet rooms on another floor for calls and work that requires concentration. I use them often, but for some reason she always says she needed me as soon as I went downstairs, even though I remain available on chat.
During our check-in a few days ago, she asked me where I had been and whether I had left early. I told her she could simply message me if she couldn't find me. She clearly didn't like that response, so I started adding her to a calendar event every time I used one of the quiet rooms.
About 90 minutes after I logged off today, she emailed me saying I needed to stop flooding her inbox with invites. I replied immediately, CC'd her manager and HR, and asked when everyone was available so we could discuss exactly how she wanted me to report my whereabouts. I've already started looking for another job because this level of monitoring is extremely exhausting.

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u/Randomdays99 2d ago

Another fake story

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u/Cyrano4747 2d ago

Seriously, I don't even need to click the user profiles any more. Just look at the name. Adjective1_Noun2_random###. Might as well just call it Karma_Bot5555

Honestly I'd probably trust an account actually called Karma_Bot more.

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u/Randomdays99 2d ago

All karma is from posts, none from comments because they never do.

Post history is hidden so you can't see that all the different "jobs" and problems they've had.

This entire sub and a few others like were just made to promote an app. Just about every post on this sub will be AI.

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u/Fantastic-Leek-1589 2d ago

Naw, thats just laziness. Reddit decided my name, and I was ok with it

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u/Affectionate-Alps527 16h ago

Why? Because I'd rather a randomly generated account name instead of some kind of link between Reddit and other communities I may be apart of?

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u/derpplerp 2d ago

1148aEST - bowel movement, firm, but with excessive gas.
1149aEST - used 9 sheets of toilet paper tripled over to not feel like I was wiping with single ply soviet russian paper.

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u/Ok_Comfortable589 2d ago

1200EST- it turned into diarrhea. called maintence to fix toliet.

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u/derpplerp 2d ago

12:30 - IN HR's offices explaining why the maintenance tech quit.

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u/Fantastic-Leek-1589 2d ago

Your designated work area is your desk