in everyone, setting employees up for failure and major micromanaging ( see my other post ). It is like they are " hitting us first" before they get hit and that is more important then the clients and the job itself. I had a really awful micromanager in my first job out of grad school. From day 1, it was clear that she was going to dictate every project I had to do, how I was going to do it, who I was going to call to make it happen, etc etc. This was working at a small church, so it was me, my supervisor, and her supervisor and that was it, so I had zero support. I went to her supervisor within a month (after trying to talk to her, which got nowhere), but her supervisor was really spineless and didn't do anything. Within 4 months, I had been asked to resign. The interesting thing to me is that I had a mentor outside this work environment, and when I described the situation, the first question he asked was whether she was intimidated by me. My first thought was that there was no way she could be intimidated by me, but it did feel a lot like a bullying situation. My supervisor would constantly make comments about my age, my experience, and generally tried to make me feel inferior. And when I started researching workplace bullying, most of what I read suggested that it was people who felt intimidated