My boss’s management skills begin and end with the threat of the sack. Everything comes down to: ‘I pay you to do that, so you’ll do it’. It makes it hard to be efficient when you are aware of doing a job wrong because you’ve been told to do it that way. I once spent a morning pre-gluing stamps so they would be easier to apply later in the day, knowing that, by three o’clock, the glue would have dried. I finished the day with a desk covered with enough postage to send it to Columbia by air mail