[Amezarak]

At least in the example given, I think it could be worse. The guy said "Bill doesn't really want to review your spec", but he had effectively reviewed it, reading and marking up 500-something pages.

But rather than nitpicking or demanding changes be made, he simply satisfied himself that the guy knew what he was doing and left him to it. In fact he doesn't even give him the marked-up spec! Maybe I'm just too familiar with uninformed (or dangerously informed) management meddling in technical issues.