It's not uncommon for your boss to completely misunderstand what your job is or how you do it; Depending on how connected they are to the inner workings of your trade they might not even understand why your job exists at all. This rule gets exponentially more accurate the more you move up the chain. Usually, direct middle-managers have at least done the base-level productive role that they're managing; or at least something similar at some point in their lives. Executives though are likely to have entered the enterprise straight from business school or dropped right out of their wealthy parent's loins straight into the position. As a result, they aren't going to understand a thing about the methods and needs of your work. Say, for example, if you work at a grocery store, the chances that the shift manager started out bagging groceries are actually pretty high, but the likelihood that the executive of the corporate entity has worked as a cashier, or even touched a grocery bag, is slim-to-none.
This is exactly as it was for dear old Bill here, a soft-spoken and wildly under-appreciated analyst who found himself in hot water simply for the crime of not communicating in a way that his superiors understood. He was told that his work was "not valuable," "worthless" even going as far as to say that "if he didn't do it no one [would] know." The company wouldn't understand his value until he wasn't there.
Keep reading for the screenshots, for more malicious compliance check out this electrician who was quick to turn a terrible clientin when they wanted him to lie to an inspector.
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