I have given my boss feedback on a couple of occasions that he needs to be better about delegating.

[ironiridis@mspsocial.net]

I have given my boss feedback on a couple of occasions that he needs to be better about delegating. He will get into situations where he's overcommitted and can't keep hold of the details. We're doing after-hours work tonight and it happened again. I posted a team update: X is done. Y is started. Z is in progress.
His very next message 90 seconds later: "Is Y started yet?"
I need this man to trust his team. If we need you, we'll tell you. Hands off.

[coreyartus@mindly.social]

@ironiridis My former department chair was very similar. He was more interested in managing the system than he was in the work we were actually doing… He’d vacillate between micromanagement and complete unawareness as his entire attention was increasingly focused not on what was happening in his department but what was happening at the university. He got busier and busier… We ran better on automatic pilot without him than when he decided to do his job once in a while…

Some might call that good management, setting things up so they don’t need you. But then the question becomes, “Why exactly are you here anyway? Do you even know what we’re doing?”

It was one of the reasons I left my position after 23+ years. We needed him. But he was so busy with stuff that wasn’t about what we were doing that I started to feel used, ignored, and taken advantage of. Eventually I had enough and walked away.