You need to balance the need to follow your local boss' instructions without making the head office think you're taking too long.
After a C.I.A. officer disobeyed her bosses' instructions and gave Mr. Soufan 45 minutes to question Ramzi Binalshibh, one of the 9/11 conspirators, and another unidentified prisoner, Mr. Soufan and his colleagues learned of a plot to bomb an oil tanker off the Yemeni port of Al Mukalla.
Being on good terms with my boss, an instruction book would have been more valuable than the Long Pick Tip.
"I didn't know what to do," Armstrong testified, referring to her boss's instruction to restore the message to the original.
This is a world where staff, overhearing their boss giving instructions for dealing with a length of electric flex ("It's not long enough to go in!") believe that he is having sex with his secretary.
The boss delivers instructions cryptically and through intermediaries.
Of course, I ignored my boss's instructions and decided to go into the bathroom.
Asked if a 2008 phone call from his boss was an instruction to cut the rates Mr del Missier said "yes it was".
All that they got from their bosses was the instruction 'Here's your badge, do whatever you like.' " Less than six per cent of the new recruits came from the existing police force, and officers in the patrol services were given salaries two and a half times larger than those in the old force.
I hated being stuck in an office, tied to a cubicle, doing work that to me, had no meaning or purpose, being told what to do by someone less competent and smart than I thought I was (yes, call me full of myself but at age 22 I thought I knew more than my boss), following stupid instructions and accepting things that made no sense to me.
