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I’ve had managers like that. They walk in, and I start updating my resume and I leave as fast as I can. It’s an awful personality type.

You just described most of the supervisory auditors at the Defense Contract Audit Agency. The three years I worked there were the worst of my 45+ year working career.

I didn't help my cause by comparing the agency to the FDIC, where I worked for nearly five years during the bank crisis. Sheila Bair's leadership at the FDIC was exemplary, as was the senior leadership in Dallas. I was in the right place at the right time. During my first year, I went from a GS-7 to a GS-13 in 10 months. We were allowed to do our jobs, with encouragement from our managers.

DCAA audits are a joke, a mind numbing process of preparing checklists, not identifying the missteps of government contractors, which are easy to discover.

BTW, over 60% of DCAA employees are women.