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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First and foremost, I am sorry.  Micromanagers suck the life out of you.

I have worked for several in the past.  Things that have helped me:

- Give her the information before she asks for it.  Be proactive.  
- Give her a daily log of items you are working on and any updates (you can use the same list daily and just add the updates)
   for example: 
   Smith File- Accomplished XYZ - emailed Joe about escrow (11/2) and waiting for reply.  
   Barnaby File- Heard back from Debra on 11/2 about IT Issue 
- cc her on emails 
- manage expectations

Some micromanagers can learn to let go once they have staff who inundate them, some do not, but I have found the above to be helpful.  It takes a little bit of extra time (not too much) but much less than dealing with them hourly.

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+1 to all of this.  Also, not sure how long you've worked for this manager but my boss starts out as a terrible micromanager with every new team member but really relaxes at about the one year mark (she just has a really hard time trusting people to do there job).  It makes the first year so freaking hard/miserable but once it was over, life got a lot easier.  So there is a possibility your boss will get better as time goes by.  [/quote]

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