People demanding that you are obedient to them (and requiring you to be a mind reader) is human nature. If you can allow them to be human AND stick to high road 99.99% of the time, you will impress yourself. If you can allow them to be human AND get more shit done than they get done, then you will impress yourself AND them.
"The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems." -Wendell Berry