"You want me to do what?" I asked while staring incredulously at my supervisor. "I want you to start explaining to me what all of these inspection personnel do exactly, and why they never have time for company initiatives or these other tasks coming from corporate? I want to know what each individual is doing day-to-day." So began one of the more painful periods in my asset integrity career. My orders were to become micromanagement at a level I could have never dreamt up. What started as a series of simple weekly updates devolved into something that was eating up a good part of my department's time.
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