Manager interrupts with a message every time employee is on a call: 'It took me a while to realize it was intentional'

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  A woman looks frustrated typing on her computer at work

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  Why would a manager intentionally contact you only when you're on a call?

  

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  Commenters speculated about what might be going on here.

  

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  An employee at her desk checks her phone while on a video meeting

• The employee in this story was dealing with their own micromanager when they realized that something that was once a usual annoyance was actually an intentional strategy. Every time they took a call with another coworker, their manager interrupted it. Even if it was with an innocuous message, they realized that there was a bigger method of control going on. They were tired of having no privacy, and they wondered where this behavior might be coming from. They weren't sure if they could quell it themselves or if they needed to rope in outside help. Scroll on to get all the details of the story and see what you think about it.

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