RookieSaaS

Senior Account Executive

Micromanaging Passive Aggressive Manager - What are my options to tackle this?

So this may seem like a personal question but I've joined his team 4 months back. In these four months, I've luckily performed well almost carried the team quota upto an extend and then he decides to get a team meeting scheduled to basically tell me about one text field that I've missed out on filling in about 12 leads (mind you, there was no prior training to this I was just thrown in the ocean to learn how to swim) and goes ahead to state "I want you to post screenshots of every lead that you get from now on with the field update. Your numbers don't mean shit to me this is the only metric I care about, this is the only metric to be considered for any incentives that you may get that goes through my approval"

To say that I feel like my contributions and performance were just set on fire in front of me would be an understatement. I've been super frustrated about this. Any ideas on how to tackle this?

Should I just do that and fuck my numbers? Stop being a team player? Do my number and do hell with the team quota? What choices do I have here?

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ohhlineman

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Commercial Sales Manager

My recommendation would be to have a direct conversation with your manager about the situation. It will likely be uncomfortable. Then follow up on it in writing. If he's not receptive to that kind of feedback and conversation, would you have an opportunity for a skip-level to share that feedback with his boss? Though if you're working for a guy who is not receptive to constructive criticism, it may not be the kind of place you want to work at much longer anyways

RookieSaaS

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Senior Account Executive

Well, I'm going to try. He isn't known to be the one to have conversations over his management style but I'll definitely try. Thank you for the advice!

sahil

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Deepak Chopra of Sales

It sounds like your "manager" isn't interested in managing you. There's a couple possible reasons for that:

1. He sucks as a leader. If that's true, there will be high churn, low morale, people will shit talk him, etc. If that is happening, then you should go talk to his manager directly about what happened.

2. You, specifically, are annoying him in some way. Maybe your attitude? Maybe something else? Go talk to him and say "Hey, that the convo we had about the lead field was abrasive. How can we work together better?"

RookieSaaS

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Senior Account Executive

Thanks, Sahil for that! Well, I had a quick discussion with my team about this and turns out it's not just me but everyone in a team of 8 that he manages who he treats this way some time or another. One of our team members put down his papers because of this attitude and in fact, he did tell my Manager that and was handed a response "If that's what you feel, then we should not talk until you leave". Not sure if I should indeed go talk to him post knowing this..

sahil

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Deepak Chopra of Sales

You should go talk to his manager directly. You might end up getting fired, but you don't wanna stay at the company anyway if they are treating you like shit.

Best case scenario: you get him fired.

allsetdude

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Enterprise Account Executive

find another job and leave. There's no way for managers like these t 'change their stripes.' I hear what some of the other commenters are saying and you should try to have an up front conversation with this person, but at the end of the day this manny is still gonna be manny it would appear.

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