RULE 82
Accept that some things bosses tell you to do will be wrong
Just because you do your job well doesn’t mean everyone else does. Some bosses are useless and there’s no getting away from that. Sometimes they will tell you to do stuff that is crazy. Sometimes they will issue orders that are so obviously off the wall you can’t help but gasp. Sometimes they will tell you to do things that are completely wrong. What are you to do?
You have various options:
- refuse
- leave
- seek advice from your union/management advisory body/trade body if you are in one
- ask advice from Human Resources
- ask advice from other managers
- ask advice from your boss’s boss
- put your concerns in writing
- get on and do it but grumble a lot
- get on and do it with a cheerful ...
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