Don’t you hate to be micro managed?

I was recently doing some work for a given company who had asked me to handle one specific client.  My contact in the company, we’ll call him Phil, was telling me about the need to do a lot of hand holding with the clients, and in general, with his clients that may very well be the case.  However with regards to the client I was given to work with, who was not a typical client for this company, I believed that being somewhat indifferent and having the client chase me was actually a better method for retaining him.  My impressions of this client were that he would interpret too much unsolicited attention as smothering.  I explained as much to Phil who politely expressed his understanding with a “but still” and reiterated his suggestion.  Grrr.

I stuck with my gut and indeed the client came back on his own in a ready and willing fashion without my having kept tabs on him.

Ah Hah.  VINDICATION!

Phil was delighted and surprised to hear this and again suggested I stylize my approach with the client in a hand holding fashion.  Ummm, excuse me, wasn’t I just proven right?  But no.  It did not matter that reality was supporting my claims.  Phil was blinded by habit.  I remained quiet when Phil was making his suggestions and we ended our talk cordially.

I have every intention of sticking with my hereto proven gut… and I have every intention of keeping it to myself.

To say I hate being micro managed may be putting it a little strongly.  People should have degrees of dislike.  For example if I were to say I hate peas and then I were to say I hate murderous, lying terrorists, it would be placing my dislike for peas slightly out of perspective.

(Why must we eat those things when we’re five anyway.  Was this a way for our parents to live out a warped projected revenge on their own parents by inflicting peas on us as they were similarly afflicted when they were five?  And are we doomed to do the same to our children?  If so this viscous cycle must be stopped!  But I digress…)

A minor annoyance here or there can be tolerated if one is still left to make their own decisions.  What benefit could there be to arguing my case.  At best I feel vindication at being proven right (Unlikely though given most people have no problem ignoring the obvious to protect their habitual thoughts and tendencies).  More likely I get on bad terms with Phil… and I like Phil.  Whats not to love about Phil?

Remember: Only fight to fulfill a need.