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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I once worked for a narcissistic, controlling personality. He loved being in control. One afternoon, after he left, I rearranged my office. (I was a Publication's Editor for an association.) The next day when I came to work, he had rearranged the room the way it had been the day before.
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Okay, after my initial response, I had to think about how we do things in our office. In the job my group does, individuals may work separate portfolios, but they perform the same duties from one portfolio to the next. So if one person's out of the office, the desk has to be arranged in such a way that the person covering the duties can find things.
So it's not so much - in our case - a situation of being "controlling" for the love of having it "my way". It's a case of requiring uniformity to make it easy to ensure the job gets done.
But even in our case, we seldom would simply rearrange things to our requirements - we'd ask the person to do so. We might have to verify and/or oversee the task, but we'd at least respect their "space" enough to ask them to make the changes!