After that first round of interviews and business requirements, she had me cancel all future meetings until she could review the work done to date. Naturally, no review was ever done. No meetings were ever scheduled. When I asked about the review, she said that I was aggressive and pushy. So, two weeks went by with nothing really happening. I couldn't interview stakeholders, I couldn't use Access, nor could I write VBA to automate Excel spreadsheets with the data I collected.
Finally, she came up with some busy work: clean up a huge database dump. By hand. Within one day she had written a dozen e-mails to me complaining that the work was incorrect (but no corrections were provided), incomplete (but no indication of what should be done), and too slow (although automation tools were prohibited and she wasn't available for questions for hours on end).
The next morning, my account was disabled and the contract was terminated. I think that she never wanted me there in the first place, but hired me because her boss told her to. Plus, from everything that I saw, the project was a serious train wreck and she didn't want anyone else to know about it.
I had only ever read about managers like this, but now I can put a check in the "been there, done that" box labeled "have worked for incompetent manager."
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Many people had the same experience with a guy named Bernd Lepper in Thailand. He managed the same way and caused many of problems for the company, and spent all his time trying to cover things up.