Home featured Expert Featured Opinion Expert Five ways to kick corporate anxiety to the curb Chanie Hyde May 11, 2018 I’m a firm believer that if you micro-manage or clock watch an employee, you’re setting them up to deliver the bare minimum. I’ve had it done to me. I’ve found myself sitting in front of a disgruntled manager, trying to explain why I was 10 minutes late back from lunch. They were not sympathetic to the fact my order at the cafe was lost, or I needed to head to the chemist. Apparently the most important thing in life is that I was back in my cubicle before the small hand met the big hand on the hour. Don’t even get me started on the place that made me sign out of the office every time I wanted a coffee. It’s a bullshit piece of some corporate cultures that treat people like robots, or slaves, or at best slave robots. If you’re going to watch someone that closely, they are only going to do the bare minimum hours and likely resent you for it. Of course this is a very extreme example of aggressions that can force people out of the corporate sphere into the startup world. This can encourage people to seek or forge a path of their own, to find an environment that doesn’t treat casualty like incompetence. I was once this person, like a prebiotic organism seeking a new form, I crawled out of the corporate soup