Sounds like parents, govt. Officials, bosses, and anyone else given authority over us without our direct consent. I just had a "meeting" with my boss where she requested me to take the lead in designing the solutions to problems that were defined in my absence and not to bother her for the details. I should do the work necessary to investigate the issue and propose a solution without pestering her for the details of how the problem is defined, who defined it, who is working on it also, what parts of the product it affects or what it will integrate with or what degree of freedom I should take in modifying the rest of the interacting parts of the system. I dutifully said I would continue to endeavor to be as good at that as possible. I appologized for having failed her significantly enough that she needed to pull me aside and mention my failing. She was mollified ( and hopefully her menstrual cycle will be over next week :^))