100% good managers are phenomenal to have. And a shitty manager is why I had one blissful week of working from home before they pulled me back into the office.
Due to our lame naming convention at work I'm a "project manager" at our media house, but in reality I do half that, but MY boss is actually the team lead, and makes most big calls for the projects. I'm fine with that. He can do that rather well. But meanwhile not only do I make sure everyone else's work fits together, I end up doing "producer" work of filling in cracks between everyone else often. It's a dumb delineation of labor.
But working from home, the boss immediately went into "out of sight, out of mind" mode. Any time someone went to him with an issue, instead of telling me like he normally would, he went into the media project, moved things around, changed files, (actually deleted one once, and shrugged it off,) and would never tell me. So I stumble upon changes that fuck everything up or just potentially could, and suddenly I'm spending an hour fixing things because not only is the workflow is different than when he did it five years ago; I'm also future-proofing things so we don't run into errors six days or six weeks from now. (Not having content from years ago has bit us in the ass several times.)
So he sees me making less progress, not realizing I'm also making fixes, and deems me "wasting time" because it's not advancing his shortsighted goal. I even tried to politely explain the reason I was having issues is because he was knee-capping me. He says "well you're in the office now, I can just tell you if we need to make a change." I say "You could call, email, or slack me just as easily at home." He gives me the "Well, I'd rather have you here," which means "don't argue," and it fucking infuriates me.
I woke up later, I actually ate breakfast, I worked in shorts, and the second I was done for the day I was home. It was good.
Fuck bad management. Bless good management. HIS boss used to have his position, and she was great to work with. Now I never work with her, and things suck. ... Fuck. I really needed to complain about that. Sorry to bother you, but damn it felt good to type out.