>I always felt it was my duty to let my employer know if there might be a better way to accomplish what they wanted done but I never felt it was my job to make their decisions for them. After all it is their money and they have the right to be, in my opinion, wrong or dumb - and live with the consequences.

That's one the key reasons I opted to go into management when in the corporate world. I didn't like having to do things that didn't make good sense to me. Even that wasn't enough, so I eventually became independent.

Since becoming independent, I've been fortunate to have clients where that has never been an issue.