My firm is notoriously hard on our project managers. We never have enough of them, so they end up being ridden until breaking point... at which point they quit, leaving us with fewer PMs and thus the ones left get ridden harder. It's a bad cycle that we keep trying to break but we can't keep PMs around long enough to get past the cycle.
So a new PM started about two weeks ago. I work with him on one small project. He's a great PM, but his tenacity is going to kill him! He keeps checking up, keeps asking how things are going, and what's more... he keeps trying to help! I continue to tell him that my job is to do all of the analysis and his job is to assign work to me. But he says that he wants to learn. I told him that they obviously don't have him on enough accounts yet if he has time to learn my job on top of his own.
I'm sitting back and waiting for him to crack. Anyone want to guess how long it takes?