Management issue: "Helpfulness" is determined by receiver, not giver
Barry: "I'm helping." || Employee: "You're being a micromanaging asshole." || This is a dichotomy, and a problem.
Got the concept from this article, which is mostly kinda interesting although is essentially just describing how CEOs want shit done and don't care about the impact on people in the process. See also: burnout.
You see this a lot in management with some dipshit named Barry micromanaging you to death on a project, including 12:03am emails. At the end of th…
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