Don’t get me wrong I have had lovely managers in the past I wasn’t applying to everyone.
I work in quite a large, well known organisation and in this case it seems to be very common for senior staff to push boundaries.
For example.
My manager makes it very clear on who she likes and who she doesn’t like. There’s a bright young girl with Aspergers who works really hard and loves her job but it is very clear that she is targeted by her, picking and blaming issues on her.
I was off on sick recently, and the girl has been helping making my job a bit easier by collecting documents from one place (where she is based) and bringing them up to the office where our department is. which is great a lot of people do this and it’s not wrong of them to do.
When I was away the girl came up with these documents and put them on my desk and she was questioned by my manager in a very abrupt way - she flung her arms in the air in dramatics and raised her voice angrily and said “why is she getting involved she is ruining things!”
The staff who I manage has also been helping out kindly, and she was praised for it by her.
Two other members of staff who I manage are very close to each other - great workers, get their jobs done and work together well. They have the same position. For some reason my manager seems to resent this connection they have. My manager got the estate team round to put their desks facing the wall way from each other - this makes their jobs a bit more difficult to do - and left my desk to however I wanted.
When I was on sick she tried to get in to my business and she pretty much changed my systems of one of my project making a fuss over nothing - systems that were pre agreed by her (?!) and had no issues and worked perfectly. I’ve come back to a right mess and had to sort it out.
She’s constantly changing her mind on things - she will set up a project and agree on how we will carry this out - but will change her mind mid tasks - then revert back to the original idea and blame other people for the change and the mess after words.
Here, it’s not just her. It seems to be the majority on higher levels that will do similar things as though other people aren’t capable of running the place themselves.
I wasn’t allowed to send an email for almost a year.
Today, after the mess I’ve come back to, we had about three phone calls with the same conversation off the director ranting about some project that’s happening in work. This is the same woman who wasn’t invoked with the project to begin with but was asked to step in as the project hadn’t started yet (due to my manager putting it aside for months). She had a rant to me about it all - I told her she’s best speaking to my manager as she’s running it and I have little involvement. She interrupted me and said “I don’t want to speak to her about it , I want to speak to YOU about it” 
was rude, abrupt and ended up putting the phone down on me. I reported the incident to my manager.
Later on down the line we got started with said project, the director authorised it. Tried to keep her in the loop as she was supposed to be taking over and managing it. Said she didn’t have the time and dismissed it (waving hand in the air and all that, she’s really rude).
6 weeks later she’s on the phone to the whole department shouting down the phone as to why it’s taking place after she made a fuss as to why it wasn’t!!
There’s so much more to this but is anyone in the same boat at work? It’s like you get treated like dirt because they can get away with it.