I'm I wrong to be angry because my team lead goes into figma every 20 min to see if I'm working?
Hey everyone, I work as a remote UX designer for a US company, and right now I’m pretty annoyed. The pace and workload have been good and balanced so far, but there's one massive issue. I've been working remotely or freelancing for over 8 years now, and I’ve never missed a deadline. I always deliver on time, and my 9-5 is no different.
The thing is, I have my to-do list assigned by my boss and my team lead, and I do my work in Figma. I'm not a slow designer, if something needs to be solved ASAP, I do it, and if there's time to refine details, I do that too.
But here's what drives me crazy: this dude (team leader) logs into the Figma file I'm working on like every 20 minutes. He starts following me, hovers right over my cursor while I'm working, and doesn't say a single word or even send a message asking for an update. He just pops up, hovers, stops following, and leaves his avatar parked in the file for hours, even when he's not actually doing anything in there.
It feels like he thinks he needs to babysit me for me to work, which is super annoying and completely unnecessary, I've asked other teammates and aparently he does this too. The weird part is he’s actually really nice in meetings, and it's not like he's blowing up my chat with messages requesting updates. But that behavior feels a bit toxic and controlling. What do you think? Is this normal in other remote teams? What is your experience?