Dear Anonymous My advice will predominantly stem from the legal perspective. Nevertheless, it would be general legal advice. If you need specific legal advice, it would be judicious for you to consult an attorney. Before defining insubordination at length, it is vital to understand your contract of employment with your employer. What is the scope and course of your employment? What are your responsibilities? How far and wide are they? What are the duties that are incidental to your contract? Your contract of employment is your work blue print and determinant of how you ought to traverse the trajectory of employment. I presume that the duties that your immediate boss is apportioning to you are outside your job description. Moreover, that they are not incidental to your contract of employment.
Even if such duties are within your job specification and incidental to your contract of employment at large, the definition of insubordination at large in the subsequent paragraphs will sharpen your insight. For an employee to be held insubordinate and dismissed thereafter it must be depicted that;
