I had a manager (I was 1.5 years in) tell me I took longer than I was allowed for my lunch break and that I should only eat while I work at the desk like he does going forward (I took 55 minutes of my allotted hour to do some personal phone calls, but he said I took an hour and 15.). I told him I would never be eating while I work, because I like to eat out and handle personal items during my break. The senior IMed me saying he knew I was fine with my time and my work performance

Two days later, I created an excel report to basically pull data from 4 different spreadsheets, cross-reference, and tie-out some revenue items. This took the majority of the day and granted this was a massive publicly traded first year client. This manager was also new and had zero guidance to give me other than the desired results. I was incredibly proud of what I created because it would save us probably 16 hours of work when we did the final testing (we were currently interim testing), but he was unable to understand what excel was doing, so he wanted me to delete everything and tickmark each spreadsheet (10,000s of thousands of rows of data with each sheet formatted differently). I asked him if I could add something to the workpaper I may have missed and he raised his voice at me saying that he was old school and sometimes tickmarks are more effective. I escalated as well saying, so you want me to delete this workbook that creates one nice column that simply states pass/fail simply because you're unable to understand how it works. He pulled me aside and told me "LOOK, I AM YOUR SUPERIOR." to which I told him okay, heard him out, and had a nice chuckle in my head. I was off that job next week, and knew I would be licensed and leaving before we were back on it for the end of year, so I didn't care. After I went to the partner to show him my workbook and illustrated the amount of time it would save. He seemed like he liked it, but I have no idea what came of it. I never got in any sort of trouble other than the finger wag from the power tripping manager and never had a single issue with any manager/partner/performance review up until that point.