Orders Are Easy To Give, But Hard To Follow

"Orders are easy to give, but hard to follow." That's my thought for today.

Think back to a time someone had you running their errands. One person can dream up an endless list of things for you to handle, and before you've even finished the first task they've already piled on three or four more. The instructions keep coming faster than you can act on them.

Then there's the order that takes longer to decode than it would to actually carry out. Whoever is barking it out thinks it couldn't be simpler. To you it's a riddle. And often they vanish, expecting you to sort out the confusion yourself, only to turn sour when they circle back and find the job isn't done the way they pictured it.

What you've been told to do can be about as clear as mud. It leans on jargon you've never heard. So you track down someone who might help, and the first thing that person asks is a question the original boss never bothered to answer.

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