Good CO's need to get in the trench sometimes and see how things are really like. Unfortuntaly, not too many do.
In my last job, the guy kept getting on my case when I told him things were working. Then he always got mad when the testing people found yet another way to break it. It did not seem to mater nobody's code seem to do much of anything except mine of course...just could not plan for every possible attack on the code.
Where on my resume did I put experience with main frame's? The project dumped on me first seemed to require development. The more I dug, the more I realized it was just administration. I had to hound people for admin rights....
I thought it was funny that I argued they had no idea what I was going through. It was admitted they did not know what I needed to do my job.