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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of you need to cut the OP some slack. I agree that if OP is not meeting stated deadlines and requirements, then OP is the problem.  However, the issue (though admittedly it's difficult to tell from the scant information provided) may be that OP has a micromanager who insists on the OP do his/her work a certain way.  Every single employee in the world is going to have his/her own work style.  Some of us prefer phone, some of us prefer email.  Some of us work four straight hours on a  project; others prefer to work two hours on one project, then switch to another for awhile, then return to the first project with a fresh eye.  Some of us are fine eating lunch at our desk every day; some of us need to get some fresh air and sunlight on their lunch break to most productive in the afternoon.  If you are meeting deadlines and doing good work, it should be your business how you get work done.  Managers who insist that you do what they want you to do every minute of the day are awful to work for.  They sap morale and productivity (because they inetrrupt constantly to find out if you've done X yet - when the deadline to finish X is in two weeks) and create anxiety and resentment.

I don't know whether that's the situation here or not, but if it is, then OP has a legitimate problem.  The only solution may be finding a boss who gives their supervisees some breathing room and trusts them to achieve their work targets according to their own work style.  [/quote]

After the OP's follow up, I can understand why she's annoyed, but I still disagree that this is her boss's problem. If the OP knows that her boss expects her to pay invoices within 24 hours of receiving them, then the obvious solution is just to pay them within 24 hours. My boss and I have an understanding about his travel expenses and client invoices that they will be sorted out within 2 weeks of him returning from the trip or us receiving the invoice - or within the current billing cycle, whichever is shorter. I agree that if the work is getting done, that is the main priority, but it sounds like the OP's boss does not believe that the work is being done as instructed or expected. Presumably people like the OP (and me, for that matter) were hired so that our bosses did not have to be concerned about payment of vendor invoices and reimbursement of travel expenses. If the way that the OP (or I) am doing those things is causing her boss (or mine) to spend time being concerned about those things, what is the point of hiring someone?

In any case, this is clearly a situation where the OP should find a workplace more suited to her style, but I don't think that her boss is wrong for expecting an employee to conform to supervisor's standards, particularly if those standards have been communicated already.[/quote]

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