everything to be a joint project. There are few things I resent more (or will correct more quickly). Having take over a job and own it competently -- without it being groundhogs day every day -- that is the sweetest feeling in the world. Yeah, bullying and micromanaging are two separate things. Micromanaging happens either because the employee's performance is lacking or because the manager doesn't know how to manage effectively. Bullying is a whole separate thing that isn't really about management at all. I think micromanaging is more of a product of managers who just can't let go. Often people get promoted to management because they are good at the details. When a person gets praised for that for so long, it's hard to let it go. It's even harder to watch another person doing it who may not do it exactly like they have done. I was the first ever direct report of a newly promoted manager (after being "peers" for over a year). We clashed a lot at first because I really resented her trying to make me be like her. Although she has backed off some, I still get the feeling that she's not evaluating me (for review purposes) based on job title/level but comparing me to who she is/was. So I'm stuck in this loop of her unreasonable expectations yet often trying to handhold me through things that I was handling even before she became my manager! Oh where to even begin. My micromanager is