This is how you’re supposed to respond to awful management directives. Follow it to the T and when it fails tell them why.

If you ‘do the right thing’ and create work-arounds and hidden fixes to problems management created, they will think their decisions were absolutely justified and were the correct course of action. They’ll pat themselves on the back, give you an attaboy, and move into the next disaster with misplaced confidence, all without ever seeing all the cracks in their plan that you silently filled as you carried the weight on your back.