Earlier this month, we asked you to tell us about a boss-from-hell experience and many of you did just that. Over the next few days, we’ll be (anonymously) sharing your horror stories. Here’s another hellish tale for your Tuesday.

I used to work for a large international bank in Sydney. My manager was practically the devil incarnate. She was initially really nice and made me permanent after just two months, even though I was still undergoing training then.

Surrounding herself with cronies

But I soon got to see what she was really like. She made several talented people leave the firm and surrounded herself instead with mediocre employees who did nothing more than stick together.

Breathing down our necks

Her pet habit was micromanaging. She wasted a lot of time doing this and succeeded in annoying the vast majority of her staff. She was also fond of assigning me random tasks, which had seemingly no connection to one another.

Ever changeable

My boss would rebuke me for the work I’d done, thanks to her habit of changing her instructions mid-way through. To counter this, I once asked her to email me what she wanted to get done, so that I could document it in case she chided me again. But she blew up and repeatedly scolded me, saying I needed to be retrained, even though I was then in charge of training new employees.

I finally had to quit the job I loved – all because of that wretched manager.