Thesis director from the Ninth Circle

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an especially depressing first-person account of what it's like to work with the Thesis Director from Hell. And since, I suspect, nobody will ever dare file a grievance against him, he'll continue to inflict demonic tortures on the unwary, the unsuspecting, and the optimistic. Observe the danger signs:

1) Refusing to return work in a timely manner. One month is reasonable, especially during term time; three months (as here) isn't.
2) Expecting free favors. There's a big difference between paying a starving graduate or undergraduate to house-sit, let's say, and expecting one to do it for free.
3) Exacting retribution. I have to say that, at this point in the essay, I wanted to know where this woman's department chair is/was. If everything she says is true, then this man deserves a nasty note in his file (and, for that matter, a calling-on-the-carpet from his dean).
4) Rampaging perfectionism. A director has every right to expect his or her student to produce a lucid, well-researched, well-organized, and grammatical dissertation. However, dissertations are there to be finished. Lucid, well-researched, well-organized, and grammatical does not translate into "and instantly publishable."

There's a fifth danger sign, not mentioned here: the director with too many dissertations on hand. It's really much better to work with Less Famous Professor X, who has two students, than with Super-Duper-Ultra-Famous Professor Y, who has twenty-five. Professor X will have the time and energy to deal with your dissertation's problems, whereas Professor Y may not be able to remember what your thesis is about (let alone what your name is).

I should add that there are rare cases in which a director has every right to jettison a student: the student refuses to rectify blatant errors in the thesis; the student demonstrates such genuine incompetence that there's no hope of him finishing the degree, even with the director's assistance; the student cheats or plagiarizes; and the like. But "student expects me to actually read her chapter" doesn't quite make that list, to say the least.