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[quote=Anonymous]New director over about 800 people is just truly awful.  Her style of management is extraordinarily micromanagy.  For example, she wants to attend virtually every meeting that goes on in the office.  Monday last week they send out an email at 9:50 PM stating that they needed to reschedule a morning meeting the next day for 4 PM because the director's schedule has changed. It angered a lot of people having to stay that late in the day because many of them have kids to pick up from school, etc.  Having a last minute notice while not being able to plan anything was so annoying for many people.  And it wasn't like it was some important meeting either, it was just a routine team meeting about 5 levels below the director level, so why is she even caring about this kind of minutiae as a director?  Worst of all, the director herself was late to the meeting and didn't even call in until 4:15 PM because she was driving home!

Last Friday was also really bad.  Because she is so micromanagy, she attempts to edit ALL, yes I mean ALL,  of the work coming out from 800 people.  We had a document due Friday last week and the team was done by the early afternoon.  Yet the document simply couldn't go out until it got the 'director's approval'.  What did she do?  She held the entire team hostage until 6:30 PM with her edits to the document because there was zero communication for when she'd have her edits in. Everyone basically had to wait around for forever until she was done.  Insane.  Before she arrived documents would go out all the time without director review and everything was fine for years.  There's just simply no way the director can review that volume of work while doing a good job (literally hundreds of documents per week).  Yet she tries to have her hand in them all.  Worst part is that there is so much information the teams review and go over that it is inhumanly possible for her to read the information the documents are being crafted about.  So all she does is provide her edits and comments for documents regarding information she hasn't even read and barely understands, because she had no time to go over it in detail.

How do orgs hire people this bad without screening at this level for leadership ability.  She's pissing off so many people and they're all leaving. [/quote]

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