Oh managers, don't ever change!

You see, it's things like this which remind me why I'd struggle being a manager full-time (that and the fact I'd find the lobotomy required a little too much of an obstacle for the rest of what I get up to). It goes like this...

A decision is requested from senior management. They suggest something ludicrous we'd already ruled out. We point out why that's not a possibility. They suggest something slightly less ludicrous. We suggest that probably won't work. They tell us that's what we're going to do.

Well, okay then. And then I get a passive-aggressive lecture from a manager who had previously been part of 'we' and is now aligning herself with 'they' since 'we' didn't get the decision we wanted about how my saying "well, I don't agree with that but if that's what they're saying, then that's what we'll have to do" is negative.

Also about how I need to set a good example to people (in other words, her minions, one of whom said to me "oh, I expect you'll get a lecture for saying that, since you contradicted her" shortly before I did...) by supporting senior management decisions even if they're stupid ones that probably won't work because we're all a team and she's too chickenshit to have an original thought in her head that isn't sanctioned by her boss in triplicate.

Never has the fact I am not telepathic been as blessed as this afternoon, since the strongest message I would have been transmitting would have been "oh bitch, please..." ;)