A lot of times it happens at work. I get told to not do something the way I did it and all I do is explain why I did it that way. I'm not told that I'm arguing, but I start getting A LOT of push back after/during the explanation because I didn't do it exactly their way and I'm doing it slightly different. Another example, at my LAST job I was told that I wasn't meeting my target goals and I told her I know and tried to explain to my district manager why and explained that there were other tasks being put on my plate by my BM, hence causing me to fall behind. I was not being listened to and still told that I wasn't meeting target goal.
I swear all I'm doing is trying to explain the WHY behind my actions, and give them clarity to WHY the situation went the way it did, but people don't seem to like that? It seems like they want you to just belly up and do what they say and that's it.
EDIT
When I started at my new job my manager told me that if we have different ways of doing things, that is fine because how she does something might not work for me as well as the way my coworker would do it. Just as long as we get the same end result for audit purposes. I have 5 years experience and know consumer finance like the back of my hand and the comoany have different policies which Im learnings and handeling. When it comes to handeling the account or the application and I do the something thats slightly different from how she would do it causes me to need to explain why I was doing it to get to [said] end result.
I felt I should add that in for better insight and that I'm not, not following company policy and guidelines and just going willy-nilly with my own thing within the company.