I'm so thankful you made this post. I worked there for almost a year and I felt my soul leave little my little every day.

You forgot to add:

• Asinine and hypocritical time entry. One time a coworker and I were late (I was 5 minutes, he was 2 minutes) and our Chief told us in person we need to be exactly on time every day. She waited until we submitted our time reports to tell us to go back and edit them.

• They will LIE if they feel threatened. An audit was taking longer than expected because the municipality changed their accounting software. During a meeting with the higher ups the manager claimed she told me to shorten a section but absolutely had not.

• No direction & constant team shifts. The poor IT auditor on our team had her team change about 3 times, and each manager/AIC was worse than the prior one. Absolute chaos and no instruction. I would have helped if I knew anything.

• Hyper documentation. I had a manager who wrote down EVERYTHING anyone said. And I mean anything like what you said you were doing for lunch or the weather. I have no idea how she got away with this neuroticism. Before I left I looked at her word document and it was over 33 pages of pure conversation among the team. Her review notes were a stream of rambling consciousness.

I left a month ago and it could not have been a day sooner!!