People do like to assume. I've had that myself, where someone goes to strangely inordinate lengths to check whether what I say I'm doing is what I am actually doing; even though it never affected them in any way at all.

Perception is key for me, as is communication. I used to be a Process Engineer and when a process failed it was nealry always because of a lack of communication. You made a really valid point here Debra :-)