We've had the same reply at a previous company. The answer was "this comes straight from the general manager, so we must do this". I'm 100% sure the GM had no i

We've had the same reply at a previous company. The answer was "this comes straight from the general manager, so we must do this". I'm 100% sure the GM had no idea what's going on, so, yeah, terrible manager right there refusing to budge.