I very much took the tone to mean: "I'm a very senior manager at this company and I can be as unreasonable as I want and you can't do much about it". It was an

I very much took the tone to mean: "I'm a very senior manager at this company and I can be as unreasonable as I want and you can't do much about it". It was an internal project at a large company and there was a fair amount of politics. I just loved how he managed to say something like that without a trace of contrition - not like this was the first time he'd seen it.