Hi, I have been an assistant to upper managers for the last eight years of my life. The last three, has been working for an assistant manager who at this point, I've lost a lot of respect for. The level of micromanaging, controlling, autocratic fuckery that happens every day is driving me absolutely insane. Today, I spoke to the staff who I supervise about envelope types and what we would do with them and I was called into the office about how I shouldn't be teaching staff about the envelopes and how that is his job and I have over stepped a boundry. The envelopes. Envelopes. Those pieces of papers that are folded and glued and do nothing but hold other pieces of papers. I couldn't talk to staff about envelopes. I also can't talk to them about the keys, the computer mouse pad, schedule (this one is a bigger one but still I'm a supervisor). I wrote a note to myself today that said “Everything, and anything ASK the Manager FIRST. You know nothing!”. My job is important to the community I work for (government setting), I love that I know the knowledge I know and the expertise I have in my field, but it can't be shared because what am I? I robot door mat that enters numbers and prints things apparently. I'm going to apply for every job possible this weekend. Fuck it. /rant Thanks for listening.