Reminds me of a foreman I had when I was a young man. I was painting a Sam's Club in Calexico, California with Dryfall, which is water soluble paint where the overspray mist dries when it falls 10 feet. We cleaned up our spray equipment with water but it didn't smell like regular latex paint, so being smarter than the average bear I read the label. It has solvents in it. One evening I'm spraying wayyyy far away from the guys that are welding the freezers in the middle of the store and my foreman says that we need to paint above the freezers and that I should drive the scissor lift over and start spraying. He said that the welders would leave once paint was flying. I explained to him that I was holding a flamethrower. He didn't get it. Paint pressurized to 3000 psi can do a lot of damage by itself. I saw a guy take off two fingers with the spray pattern...........Anyhow, I explained that no way was I going over there where the welders were. I got down off the lift, told the foreman to come with me and I pointed to the label.
I told the boss that was the last order I was taking from him. The boss agreed. I ran second shift from there out.