once spent way too long looking for a .09 difference -- finding that was one of my happiest workplace moments. Getting too wrapped up in minor details is a job requirement. I just re-read my sentence above -- I will be seeking help with this problem. No, she wanted me to move 0.77 from the APIC account (balance, half-a-billion dollars) to the Common Stock account (balance, about 50 million dollars). So it was an entry between equity accounts for an amount so small that you would need a scientific calculator to figure out the percentage amount. Materiality, anyone? Mmm. I'd need to know the context for both of these before passing judgement on her as a micromanager as opposed to someone paying attention to fiddly but in fact necessary details. With regards to the first set of things, I'm speaking merely as someone who has, on occasion, been put in the position of processing many, many files and documents, in a short amount of time. If everything's identical, the work goes quickly, but I can't tell you how many times a single staple in the wrong place brought it all to a sudden halt while I shifted the remover to the other hand, or had to refold a document so it lined up in a window properly, etc. And the 77 doesn't seem like a lot, but it does indicate that someone, somewhere, was sloppy, and that sort of behavior, if allowed to spread, can cause larger problems. It was