I just got laid off in April after months of downtown and getting on bad terms with my manager. Out of the blue he started micromanaging me, and what was once a truely remote frontend job in a completely different timezone (good) became a game where he'd call me in the middle of my day (late evening for him) and then send me passive aggressive slack messages when I wasn't immediately available. There's this managerial idea that people need to be butt in seat ready to go on a video call whenever they feel like initiating it, and that's just one more thing that stripped autonomy away and removed any sense of agency I had in how I got my work done. I was already in a zoom call at 6am most days, so I'd work for a bit, rest or go outside to enjoy the limited daylight, then come back and finish or go to a cafe.

He was definitely promoted beyond his capability though, and as a "director of engineering" couldn't keep his hands out of the minutiae of day to day code discussion.