Pros
I have to say that I had a number of good experiences at UC Santa Barbara however of the 6 or so managers I had, almost all of them at some point were failures. I did have 1 or 2 who were good...and one that was good until terrible.
Cons
Santa Barbara is small and there isn't a lot of room for growth for you and for your manager. Particularly management that gets into higher positions, there are not a lot of places for them to move up to and there is nothing in the surrounding small community where they could easily transition to. So for higher level managers if they need to impress a new boss or other higher level managers, to keep their job....if they are insecure or in a potentially insecure position...other people can become expendable to their goals and aspirations. This can be particularly true in a complex field such at TPM where there is a lot of complexity and jargon that people don't understand. X has the power to take something and make it into something else if X wants. This can be done as X likes because of x intelligence and how much time x spends advising executive leadership. x is trusted. So it is easy to say someone else is a screw up. Simply manipulate and exclude a few things here and there. And it is done. If someone admires and patterns themself after the character of Emperor Palpatine - you'll need to be careful.