I have to chase them down just to get the basics I need to do my job. What do they actually gain by making things harder for the rest of us? It's seriously draining. I’d feel a lot less miserable if there were at least a halfway decent reason for it, but I can’t think of one.
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Managers who don’t actually have an essential function, hobble employees to give the appearance that the manager is a critical employee and should be passed over in the event of a layoff.
It’s the same subversive behavior in which the opposite occurs: usually an employee, who is delegated a team admin task by the manager, will keep even the manager in the dark so laying this person off will cause some sort of havoc. (A high visibility report won’t go out, and no one will know how to run it, etc.)
But I’ve seen worse in smaller companies where the offender gets to wear many hats, thus all the more systems to lock managers and even the owner out of - payroll, paying bills and invoices, ordering - there really are no limits and it can get very bad, very quickly.
Your manager has information?
There is nothing a manager knows about the job that the person doing it doesn’t. That hasn’t been a thing since they stopped promoting people that actually knew HOW to do the job.
Carry on.
Micromanaging, it's what for dinner
Because they save money , you probably still get the task done and then they get a bonus .
It's called "need to know", and maybe you don't.