To put that another way, it used to be said in management circles that you should never order someone to do something that you cannot do yourself.
I'll go further. It simply cannot be done because the manager that does has absolutely no idea whether the job in question is able to be done, been done at all, been done badly or properly.
If you were making cupcakes that is a recipe for financial disaster. Operating highly (the most highly?) technical things readily available to humanity this type of insanity could lead anywhere.
At least one idiot came up with the idea. Another idiot backed it. Probably yet another idiot implemented it, and finally a complete turkey felt 'honoured' to be asked to do a job he has absolutely no possibility of doing properly. None of the idiots involved in that process (for thats what they are - every last one of them) has any business in the company for they are actively destroying it. And if they cant see that, then the problem is even worse!
Aside from anything else, part of a managers job is to compliment workers on a job well done. Assuming every duck on the planet lines up and said manager actually has a grasp of what someone might have achieved - what sort of respect would someone have for obviously empty words from a known idiot? And that's a POSITIVE example.
This gets worse and worse and worse.