Managers and Music

Today's topic is managers and their musical choices.
So I work at a retail store. We sell very specific products. We are a hot commodity in the city because we fit a niche that no one else does. We have crazy employees because most of us are highly overqualified for our positions but hired for this exact reason---the president of the company only hires people he knows are very awesome at working with people and incredibly smart so he can offer his customers very good service and advice. This is, however, a deadly combination.
Imagine a store full of creative, mildly crazy in the artistic sense, highly under-challenged people. Do you see where I'm going with this? None of us have enough to do and those of us who don't play video games are just generally ready to go stand in a corner and rebound our heads off the wall in an attempt to reach a higher level of consciousness.
Now getting to managers. Well, there is really only one manager that drives me wild and we will call him "wildly overpowering, needs to know all of your work and non-work business, wants everyone to include him in everything even when it doesn't make sense, did I mention overpowering manager." He needs more to do and when he doesn't have things to do he walks back and forth across the store nit-picking at his employees. I understand using down time to tidy up things around the store that otherwise are put on the back burner but his approach is wickedly off base and always comes off as condescending and rude.
The worst situation involves a slow day and his deciding to put his iPod on over the speaker system because no one in the store likes his music. He gets immediately huffy and angry like it's a personal attack, which is never the case when it comes to music but rather a simple difference in opinion. And since overpowering manager likes to be the marter he then proceeds to mope around the store and mumble, yes, mumble. Part of his moping involves no longer annunciates words but rather slurring them together in a low tone like a small child pouting about not getting to have a piece of chocolate cake. Mixing this behavior with a fleet of employees who are overqualified for their positions and wildly bored is a bad mix. Everyone just gets a little snarky and the moping gets worse while the nit picking gets more ridiculous and what started as merely a statement of dislike about music turns into full-on ridicule.
Ah, the joys of working in retail.