When one boss decided to micromanage his employees, they flipped his rules around to micromanage him instead. The moral of the story is; trust your employees. 

Other than the meddling boss, one employee liked his job at a twelve-person startup as he described in a post on the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. "Our boss likes to micromanage us," he wrote, "even though he has no expertise in any of our fields." So when the manager decided that his team's productivity was down due to their laziness, and not his own poor management, he decided to track their work. That meant no phones, no outside distractions, and task-by-task updates. 

Realizing the unrealistic nature of his demands, the team decided to band together and follow them to the letter of the law. "We would not engage in work-related conversations with him unless we are sitting at our desks and are clocked in," the employee wrote. That meant no texts outside of work hours, no extraneous questions answered, and a slower work pace. It wasn't long before the manager had no choice but to admit his mistake and return things to how they'd always been. It's too bad he didn't also change himself.