The ability to follow instructions is an undervalued job skill. It is
astounding how many people will insist on doing things their own way in
spite of having received specific instructions which are based on many more
years of experience than they have.
It is obviously time for the fascinating story of the design portion of the Architect's Licensing Exam to come into play.
The program for the exam tells you that you're designing for instance a school; the school has to have x number of classrooms, an auditorium, a cafeteria, boys and girls toilets (y number of toilet rooms with z fixtures in each), a principal's a nurse's office, a teacher's lounge, a certain square footage devoted to storage, janitor's closets, etc. etc. You have to draw a floor plan for each floor, an elevation, and a section noting materials, labeling the rooms, etc.
You design your building in 12 hours and turn in your drawings. The first run through by the judges is to determine whether you have turned in all 3 drawings; those who are missing one or more drawings fail the exam. They then look to see which complete sets of drawings have the labels on all of the rooms; if you didn't put labels on all the rooms, you're out. They then look to see which sets of drawings have all the rooms they called for; if you forgot the gym, or the janitor's closets, or provided only 12 classrooms instead of the required 13, you're out, too.
Once they winnow out everybody who was too stupid, or considered him/herself a hotshot designer who could ignore the program, they start to figure out from among those who complied with THOSE requirements whose layouts comply and don't comply with the program, and whose fully comply and whose only marginally comply, those who put the boiler room next to the walk-in refrigerator, and so on.
The primary point of the process is to see if you can follow directions, and then to see whether you can solve the design problem. If you can't do both, you get to keep taking the exam until you can.
Therefore I have very little patience with those who can't be bothered to follow directions.
Ralph