- I had the most abusive micro manager, who was based in Amsterdam. I dreaded Monday morning 1-2-1s and any calls with him because he would spend 95% criticising everything I did. He once said that the reason he did that was because he believed that negative feedback was the only way to make someone improve. During product / design meetings in Oxford or London, he would be disruptive and instigate disagreement amongst the developers and designers, and it eventually created a toxic atmosphere. This was allowed to go on for years unchecked.
- There are many 'open' initiatives at Elsevier, but, ultimately, they publish in order to make an obscene amount of money. They don't call it the 'evil empire' for nothing.