If some of y'all are as retarded as me, you tend to have a hard time understanding things directly and instead do better with analogies and parables. Here's a story I wrote for a comment in /askMRP.

Consider it my field report, put in story form, for understanding years ago what going Rambo is and why it is dumb.

=== THE STORY ===

Your boss is an idiot.

You've been working at a small business for about 10-15 years. When you got hired, it looked like a fantastic opportunity. The owner (your boss) was young, bright, and aggressive. Together, you two had big goals around growing the business and making some serious cash.

Unfortunately, over time, things didn't quite pan out. The business did ok but never reached the heights you knew it could. You did your best but really, the problem wasn't with you. The problem was the owner, your boss.

He started off as a hard-working, bright guy but has slowly morphed into a loser who slacks off constantly. He is disengaged, clueless, and moody. He has never said it directly but you have learned to handle all the serious stuff such as the financials and the most important clients. After all, if you don't handle it, it won't get done and the business will fail.

You stay on because the pay and benefits are decent and you know you won't get fired, even if you slack off more and more... which you have to admit to yourself has been the case over the past couple of years. The job is familiar and stable and that's what is most important to you.

You do find yourself dreaming more and more though, around the idea of saying "fuck it" and quitting. Your friend works at that cool consulting firm and has promised they could get you that high-paying job. It's risky but the pay raise would be huge and you wouldn't have to put up with your shitty loser of a boss anymore.

Six weeks ago, something changed with the boss.

The owner, for some strange reason, went to a 3-day management seminar and came back all excited. He immediately reorganized the production shop with no input from you. He started talking about these new procedures he was going to implement and how they would fix everything. He started changing things immediately, even huge things that were stable and working before.

Of course, he didn't run any of these changes by you to see if you had already tried them or see if they were even applicable. He didn't seem to recognize how some of these changes would affect your most important clients and really upset the flow of the business.

Even weirder, he has told you to do whatever you want but is acting like he expects you to suddenly start working really hard again even though he's been fucking off for a decade+.

You don't know what the heck to think. Sure, some of the ideas are somewhat decent but he has done this before and almost always stops halfway through, leaving an even bigger mess for you to clean up.

Maybe the worst thing about all of this is that each time he does something, he immediately looks to you like a puppy begging for attention. If you don't praise him immediately for doing his own fucking job, he gets butthurt. That pisses you off. This is his fucking company, damn it, and now he wants you to bow down and act like he is the greatest ever for a few weeks of being slightly less of a fuckup?

You are trying to just ride this out because you suspect that this is just a phase and he'll go back to being the somewhat-manageable-loser he has been before. Yesterday though, after he got pissy that you didn't fall down on the ground in awe of him doing some basic task correctly, you found him on his computer googling "should I fire my best employee if they aren't respectful enough?"

WTF is wrong with your boss?