Last year I left my management job and took a non-management job elsewhere. Honestly, I mostly like the new place because the culture is a lot better, and it's way less stressful when you can just do your work and not manage people.
I mentioned that to my dad and he started talking about how hard it was to deal with the employees and I said, “Dad, it was never the employees I had a problem with. It was always the people above me.”
I had my supervisor override my annual review of of one my employees because she just didn't like her. I had her at a higher level, but she made me give her a worse review.
I was told numerous times by my boss to talk to different employees about things they said in meetings, when I didn't have an issue with what they said at all. This was actually with different people and more than one supervisor I had there. The higher-ups thought people should bow down to them.
My employees were great, actually, and I'm still friends with a lot of them even though they and I have moved onto other companies. Even the one I had to give a bad review to, I showed her the email I sent to my boss and the original review so she knew there was nothing I could do except quit, which I finally did. My new company isn't like that as far as I know, but then again, I'm not a manager and never want to be again.