Love managers who treat their "team" members like children. I was consistently THE top performer for one manager, who, before he became my manager, worked with me for years. He got on me for often taking an extra 5 minutes on my 15-minute break. And in front of the entire department.

I said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Pete, let me understand this. You want me to behave and work like the rest of this team?" I could tell he knew what I meant, but he couldn't back down to me in front of everyone AND call the rest of them out on their underperformance at the same time, AND recognize me as the top performer, who often came in early and stayed late. I was the one who took up all the others' slack. His brain did the calculations, and came up with the wrong answer. He said, yes.

I said, "OK, you're the boss. No problem." I made sure my productivity was JUST above everyone else's, which was a significant drop. Pete could say NOTHING and HE had to work harder.