Going Pro

How I understand professional behavior involves "doing your duty in the face of constraints;" by constraints I mean discomfort with working conditions, disagreement with colleagues and/or management.

How I'm being made to understand this is "doing what you're told, despite how you feel about it, or what you're opinion about the instructions are."

The quandary perhaps is, what if my resistance to the instructions is grounded firmly on professional opinion and analysis (mine)? To persist in my resistance is still "unprofessional?"

Ultimately, I have a boss, who has her own boss, who has a boss, who has his own boss. What is valued here is our professional ability to execute instructions/directions, and not manifest professional opinions.

Imagine yourself being instructed to do a project with a ridiculous deadline, negligible resources, based on fanciful assumptions, and even more fantastic deliverables. It's a doomed enterprise and the results will be entirely your own accountability.

I have a negative opinion regarding the professionalism of the manager who sets up anyone that way.