'I did what I was instructed to do': Boss shuts down employee who was trying to explain a discrepancy in reporting, employee maliciously complies to prove his point

Most employees don't bring up problems just for fun. They typically foresee a conundrum and hope to start finding solutions before it's too late. Unfortunately, far too many bosses out there feel threatened when the people underneath them within the company hierarchy discover flaws before they do. Their wounded ego then makes it nearly impossible for employees to raise valid concerns and to try to avoid impending disaster. It's a classic case of an insecure manager whose own incompetence and attitude become the primary reasons for colossal company errors.

In this instance, we have an employee who tried to explain a delay in weekly reporting that meant accurate data for a given week would not be able to be calculated and properly distributed until the following Monday. Of course, the author's boss was unable to hear the criticism and instead implied that the employee was too lazy to get the reporting done by end of day each Friday. Well, it turns out that the only way the author was able to fully communicate the reporting issue was by doing exactly as their boss instructed.

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