My boss told me I was 'micromanaging the numbers' and it stung because she was right

I used to check every single invoice before it went out, even the ones from vendors I'd worked with for years. Last month my boss pulled me aside and said I was slowing down the whole billing cycle because of it. She showed me how the errors I caught were less than 2% over the last quarter. Now I spot-check a random 10% and focus my time on hunting down the real problem accounts. Has anyone else had a supervisor point out a habit you didn't know you had?

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the_thea24d agoMost Upvoted

That 2% stat is brutal but probably saved you hours every week once you saw it on paper.

robin59124d ago

Spent a whole weekend once timing myself doing laundry just to prove I wasn't being dramatic about how long it took. Found out I was spending 7 hours a week on folding alone, which was honestly kind of shocking.

the_jake24d ago

Wait, did you really spend 7 hours a WEEK on folding alone? I feel like that math might be off. If you fold laundry maybe twice a week, 7 hours total means you're spending like 3 and a half hours each time just folding. That sounds more like you're counting the whole laundry process from washing to putting away, not just folding. I used to time myself too and realized I was lumping everything together instead of breaking it down by each step.