As an engineering manager ... please don't "knowingly" break the rules. It makes my job so much harder. Just break them and apologize. And try to break a different one every time; this is the one thing to be inconsistent on.

Also, I never said this; I disavow all knowledge of writing this message. I am probably drunk and queued this message to be sent during working hours as a prank to myself.

Of course you don’t knowingly break the rules. How can you possibly suggest it’s deliberate. I just can’t keep the full list of company rules in my mind at all times, and things slip through the cracks. Things slip through the cracks a lot more if it’ll make my chain of command happy though.