It makes complete sense (I mean from their point of view kind of sense, not the system is logical and the compensations are well structured kind of sense) but I

It makes complete sense (I mean from their point of view kind of sense, not the system is logical and the compensations are well structured kind of sense) but I would not have thought of the bosses point of view unless it was spelled out for me like in the OP. In the author's case the mismatch in understanding worked out for them. I wonder how many times it works out quite badly for one party or even both. Even between two sympathetic people where both desire to understand the other, sometimes you just don't.