I'm thinking the snarky responses worked because we went from 5 emails to 0 in just one day. Ima just do that if this arises again.
FWIW, I would act differently if I were pursuing a lengthy career here.
Would you react differently if your boss were a man?
What are your relative ages? Would you react differently if your boss was significantly older (i.e. maybe more experienced) than you?
I don't know, I've never had a male micromanager boss before. At my previous employer I had 9 different bosses in 9 years, 2 of them female, and I got along with one great and the other not so great, but at least she wasn't a micromanager, we just didn't agree on the direction of the department. Of the 7 male bosses I really liked most of them. One I hated for legitimate reasons. One I ended up not liking because he was a failure as a manager, but like I'd have beers with him or whatever, no hard feelings or anything. Good guy otherwise.
She's older than me, not sure of her age, maybe like 50 (I'm 34). She has worked her way up from like the blue collar side of the business, and I can respect that. This is the first time she's managed folks with a college degree.