Why Should I Fail In Order To Prove You Right?

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Ever asked yourself why you should fail just so that your boss can be proved right?

Waddya lookin’ at me for? I don’t. I have embarrassing rows with them at meetings. Embarrassing? Yes.

Certain manager personalities are prone to taking any challenge to their ideas as a personal insult. This then dictates the response to me which I in turn do not retreat from. I have the right to an oposing view and like it or not, the boss is not always right. I tell them this which inflames the situation. I keep as calm and cool as ice which is mistaken for being aloof and again also narks the boss(es). If the rest of the meeting participants wanted to, they could support me but I know what spineless chumps they are so go it alone. Everytime. Their silence is deafening.

But lo and behold when the meeting breaks up the backslappers suddenly metamorphise from the spineless beings who a few minutes ago were silent as dormice. Two-faced bastards.

So I go to meetings armed with the salient facts and stats in the hope that a boss will take issue with me. It makes meetings more fun when I can prove that my plan/view is right and it also helps me continuously reset their expectations about if I have at long last turned into a brown-nosing sychophant who will let them be right even when they are blatantly wrong.

Don’t you just love corporate businesslife sometimes? Don’t you just hate toxic and dictatorial bosses?

Why Should I Fail In Order To Prove You Right?