It was actually intended as a compliment. I had a boss who used to tell me that. It was usually after I tried to buck some idiotic corporate policy that didn’t make any sense. I would usually get spanked & told “that’s the way we have always done it” by somebody high up in management. My boss would console me with that message, basically saying that “you are are a really smart guy, but they don’t want a smart guy, they just want
you to shut up & get back to work like all the other well trained drones”. Hahaha, I never learned that lesson….
