September 6, 2026 at 3:47 am

Her Boss Told Her to Do A Specific Task — Then Complained When She Actually Did

by Matthew Gilligan

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There are some bosses and managers out there who just can’t help themselves…

They simply have to micromanage anyone and everyone in their path!

And, if they can’t find something to criticize, they can always make something up!

Doesn’t that sound like fun?!?!

In this story, a worker explained why they got annoyed with their boss and her antics.

Take a look at what happened.

They find something “wrong” with your work, realize it isn’t wrong, then scramble to find something else wrong.

“It’s honestly hilarious I’m dealing with this at my age and level of experience, because I think back to the only other awful bosses I’ve had like this, and they were all when I was super young and just internalized all of their criticism.

Now that I understand what real priorities are in a business, it’s hilarious to have someone literally my age call me out as if this were a huge breach of process for forwarding an email instead of looping in and CC’ing, even though she had very emphatically asked me to forward them prior to this.

Of course, she did!

When I said I had only done what she had asked me to (and she clearly knew she was wrong), she managed to find some other insignificant thing that I had done “wrong” with a spreadsheet that – you guessed it – was just another arbitrary process change decided that moment.

I’m a VP at this company.

This is just hilarious.”

Now check out what readers had to say about this on Reddit.

This person weighed in.