doing the impossible

There must be a Dilbert like this somewhere...

Do it my way!

What's your way?

I don't know; you show me the results and I'll tell you if it's my way!

That's the kind of contradiction I feel like I am dealing with here... working on a project with no specs, and a manager who just wants it done (like yesterday...)

Oh well, small companies almost never really know exactly what they want. Ask the users, I think, but if it isn't my job to ask the users, what then?

Hmm. Pray for a new contract?

The irony here is that actually my client (boss) is very personable, and in many ways a very good manager. But he and I are yet to learn how to operate "in-sync", so to speak, because we approach problems dramatically differently. I want business specs, not to be told how to do things, and he's used to thinking he knows best how something should be done.