>>" I really have a problem with clueless managers who boss me around."
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>>do you think your body language at work doesn't give away how you feel about who you work for to those very same managers .
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>It's been my experience that they almost always know that there is something they don't like, but are clueless about the reasons and how to address it. I think I'm a lot like Mike with respect to most managers. I like guidance, but not oppression. They seem have the most asinine ideas of how to handle things like motivation and other personality issues.

Agreed. I have 5 managers. 5. None of them are on the same page either, so when it gets to me it's up to me to make sure that there is any sort of consistency. We are a .NET/MS shop, and one of the managers came over to me the other day and told me that I had better start brushing up on my Java, because he wanted us to create some Java web services. When I asked him why we couldn't create .NET web services because we had the expertise, the platform, and all of the prerequisites, and he said he wanted to use Java because it was open platform. When I informed him that we have several ASP.NET web applications running on the same web servers that could host the web services, and he kepts beating on the open platform drum, even though I was burying him with actual facts. I figure he read a magazine on his lunch break that talked about Java, and made the executive decision that that is what we were going to do.