I actually thanked my micromanager and people think I'm crazy
Last month at my call center job in Phoenix, my supervisor Sandra stood behind my chair for 10 minutes timing my bathroom breaks. Most of the team hates her guts for it, but she's the only reason I learned the skip-tracing trick that cut my handle time by 45 seconds per call. That one change got me off the weekly performance improvement plan after 8 months of threats. I told her thank you in front of five other reps and they all stared at me like I grew a second head. Sandra just nodded and walked away, but the next week she stopped hovering and started sending me the good leads from the overflow queue. Makes me wonder if acting grateful actually changes how they treat you, or if I just got lucky. Has anyone else gotten a weird benefit from playing nice with a boss everyone hates?