New job, same fights with the manager? The building changed. You didn’t.

Changing the setting does not change what you brought with you, and authority is where that shows up fastest. If every supervisor turns into the same argument, something in how you take instruction is travelling with you. Some managers really are bad, and you will not get a run of them purely by chance. The constant is the part worth examining.

Think back to the last three times it went wrong and find the sentence that set it off. Usually it is a particular kind of comment rather than the person saying it. Decide now what you will do in the first two seconds after hearing it again.