> Just curious - do you (or anyone else reading) ever feel resentful that you're the one who's expected to act in a way that makes no sense to you, instead of t

> Just curious - do you (or anyone else reading) ever feel resentful that you're the one who's expected to act in a way that makes no sense to you, instead of the other way around? When I was younger, I was mostly frustrated, with resentment on rare occasions. An interaction I had: Me: writing a script to write a daily schedule of tasks for my job Boss: "You have better things to be doing." Me (confused): "Like what?" Boss (presumably annoyed): "The documentation needs to be updated." Me: Updates hundreds of pages of documentation Me: goes back to writing script Boss (from behind me): "I thought I told you not to work on that script." Me: ??? I was very confused, because, no, he hadn't told me that; and I was a little annoyed when I found out that was what he wanted. I thought, "Why didn't he just say that?" I found out later he thought it was a security risk for me to be writing the script[0] and he was generally incompetent (considered that way by both his peers and his subordinates). But looking back, I think combined with his body language, tone, and other social cues, he was telling me not to work on the script; I just didn't get it. [0] - You got me. I had root access to literally everything and was the one running and managing the backups for the entire org. If I wanted to be nefarious you wouldn't catch me writing a script on a work PC under my non-superuser login.