I think for all of us.
Since my direct supervisor wasn't part of the exercise, he feels that I wasn't paying any attention to him during the exercise. My reply was, "I was part of the exercise. I was decisively engaged with everything going on there, and thus was unable to complete everything outside those four walls."
That went over like a turd filled balloon.
If he felt left out, I can't really blame him for that. I'd feel left out, too. However, I would then try to make myself as relevant as possible to the organization so that I didn't get put into a corner and marked 'useless' . . . .
I guess he and I just have different ways of thinking of things.

