If you “best guess” up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the “real vision”.
If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.
One of my old bosses complained I asked too many questions about requirements. They’d give me poorly defined tasks and I’d be like “what do you want it to do when the user has no name in the system?”. Then they’d get annoyed.
But if I just made a decision, like sorting my ID, they’d be like “that’s stupid why didn’t you sort by sign up date?”
It’s by design.
If you “best guess” up a success based on no actionable guidance, they take all the credit, you only did what you were told, like any common peon, they had the “real vision”.
If your best guess falls, well your execution failed their brilliant insight. Not their fault, circumstances failed to get them the right people.
Yup, that’s why I left that job. Was sick of being berated by clients. Now I work in the games industry… I may be a masochist.
One of my old bosses complained I asked too many questions about requirements. They’d give me poorly defined tasks and I’d be like “what do you want it to do when the user has no name in the system?”. Then they’d get annoyed.
But if I just made a decision, like sorting my ID, they’d be like “that’s stupid why didn’t you sort by sign up date?”