You're doing pretty well in your job as division chief, overseeing what the people in your branch are doing.

Along comes your boss, Mr. U. He drops on your desk a pile of paperwork that you know is going to take you two weeks to get through, mainly because you have to go out and get all the data to fill in all the little boxes on the forms that he left empty.

He thinks you can have this tomorrow. If the data on the form was filled in, he'd probably be right, but since the data isn't filled in, it's going to take a long time. Even worse, while you're doing the paperwork, you won't be able to do the job you really want to do, which is being the division manager. All those other projects you're overseeing will fall by the wayside without your attention for two weeks.

A couple of days later, Mr. U comes back and says "I was wondering if you'd like to work on Project X". Well, you can't say no to Mr. U. because he's your boss. So, soon enough, you're stuck working on Project X.

In due time, Mr. U. comes back and says, "oh, that nice shiny big desk you have has to go. We'll give you this little table to work on instead." Now you find yourself working on a small cafeteria table. There's no drawers on the table for you to put your things in, and you find yourself constantly running out of room on the top of the table.

To add insult to injury, Mr. U comes in a day later and tells you that you have to share your cramped cafeteria table with another one of your peers, the division manager from another division. Now you're cramped with hardly enough space to work on, and neither you nor the other division manager are happy about your new working arrangement. You see that all the other division managers have nice big desks to work on still, but you don't. You're stuck and highly aggrivated.

Is it any wonder that your morale drops off?