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@sezduck A modification to 1) I've seen is, "Always praise another department's staff but never your own. Make your staff feel like under-performers."

When I left a company after 10 years, as we were walking out of my going-away lunch my boss says, "You know Tom, you did some really great work while you were here." That was the first time he ever said anything encouraging to me.

An owner at one company pulled 4) on me by sitting at my desk and telling me what to type; I quit the next day.

@sezduck That same manager earlier had told my staff that if we met a tough deadline for a major client with the overcommitted functionality, he'd send our families to Disney World. If we got the extra features the client wanted, he'd send us to Hawaii. We worked tons of overtime and met the first set of functionality so we told our kids the company was sending us to DW. They were super excited. Then the boss didn't follow through. He didn't have the authority. So I paid for my own vacation.