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Re:Hard to work with by xaedes on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:24AM (#30866368)
" When the leader says follow, you don't choose a different path, even if the leader is wrong. Eventually, if they genuinely are incorrect, they'll be dismissed due to poor decisions and performance. "

Disobedience is one of the most important civil and moral duties. Maybe it should even be regularly trained... The people you call for, the Yes-Men, are superb for demonstrating the Milgram experiment and what it stands for.

So NO.

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Re:Hard to work with by denton-scratch on Thursday March 31, 2022 @09:00AM (#30866678)
Disobedience in the face of a direct order is insubordination, and grounds for summary dismissal (IANAL).

As GP says, some bosses avoid direct orders; Robert E. Lee was famous for vague orders with lots of room for "discretion".

Unless you are a junior, then any decent boss will expect you to give him advice - maybe strongly-phrased. If the decision is delegated, you don't have to discuss it with the boss anyway. But if you do discuss it with the boss, and his reply is "Do as I say", and you don't comply, then for sure you are "hard to work with", and also insubordinate. Time to polish your resume.

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