Much as I hate it, I've discovered the one advantage of using Microsoft Teams for interminable work meetings: when your annoying boss says something irritating and infuriating, you can yell at them all you want with your mic muted to get at least some of that stress out.
For real, though, I'm getting really sick of it. My boss is of the "control freak" variety, and absolutely loves to find things to pick us up on that we're doing wrong. She repeatedly changes our "processes" in what feels like a deliberate attempt to confuse us, and on more than one occasion (today being one of them) has told us specifically to do one thing, then complained at us for doing it exactly as she told us to do it.
Unfortunately, no-one is willing to stand up and say "can you not" for one reason or another. Last time I attempted to "push back" (as obnoxious corporate parlance has it) on an unreasonable request — very politely, I might add — I ended up getting pulled aside and saying it was unacceptable. My sin? Saying that we had a heavy workload at that time and thus it wasn't the best timing to introduce one of her many new processes to confuse matters.
She gets in the way of so much stuff. The aggressively garbage pieces of software that we have to use on a daily basis are entirely her fault. The unnecessary degree of micromanagement we have to put into what should be a very simple job is her fault. And the frustration my whole team feels on a pretty regular basis is her fault. It's a real pain, and there's nothing that can be done about it aside from gritting one's teeth and just getting on with it.
That's the reality of "adult life", I suppose. But that doesn't mean it doesn't suck balls!
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