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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was told that if I were sick or on vacation I still needed to check email/voicemail at least once a day. When I joked about being on a Caribbean island vacation, they said that's why I would need to get an international phone plan. On Day 1 I told them there was a date 6 months out where I would be out because of a wedding I was in (out of town). They said they could not grant me the day off because there was an important annual meeting that day. This was before I had kids and a huge red flag about how they would be if my children were sick, had an event, emergency, etc.  Boss would IM us every hour to make sure we were at our desk, even though we had meetings all day with people throughout the company.  (Most of us had 10+ yrs experience with Masters degrees). [/quote]

So what does the boss do that allows for IMing staff every hour and waiting for reply? Just sits at a desk?[/quote]

Worked remotely - we were at HQ he was remote. Super micromanager.[/quote]

I had a boss like this. We all worked in different offices (she worked from home) and we were required to be on IM all day so she could reach us at any moment. She used it to see what time we got in, how long we took lunch, when we left. And then because she was single and I’m assuming lonely, would message us like right before the end of the day and start asking questions, and then talking about personal stuff etc and we’d get stuck there an extra hour. And of course she would disappear from IM for hours at a time when she wanted to run errands or whatever. I stayed at that place way too long.[/quote]

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