When Instructions Keep Changing

He tells me what to do. He tells me why to do it. He tells me how to do it. He tells me when to do it. And when I do it, he's like, what are you doing?

A man wearing glasses appears in a four-panel reaction image, increasingly confused and frustrated. The joke describes following detailed instructions from someone who then acts surprised when those instructions are carried out, a reaction commonly used for contradictory requirements or unpredictable authority figures.

• @dev_meme / 8258 2026-07-21