I was asked many times to do things that were not quite Kosher during all my years in the oil biz. I always told the higher ups to take a hike or to come in and do it themselves.

I got threatened will all kinds of stuff and once was even put into a position that was impossible, from a physics standpoint, of pulling off. When I pointed this out I was told to deal with it and to think twice before I refused to follow orders. He hated to be told no and he didn't care what the reason might be.

So I put the pencil to it, contacted everyone in the field involved, notified two outside companies to expect a different way of doing things, and pulled it off without a hitch. It took the help of a lot of folks, but it worked. Once they understood this was taking place because of some manager's fit of whiningness everyone was eager to assist.

The manager that cooked up this plot when nuts. I told him when he came up with something difficult he should let me know and I would teach him how this whole refinery operations thing was done.

He put in for a transfer shortly after that. Later I found he had bragged to a lot of the higher ups that he had seen to it that no one would ever disobey him again and when his plan fell apart he thought he looked like an idiot.

Hate knows no master. All you can be sure of is if it serves you today it can turn on you tomorrow.