Then if the context or situation of the action wasn't important, I suggest you don't bull!@#$ on telling people to find out "what the real situation was". Obviously the real situation wasn't important enough to bother with when a bolt is the first and only response.
"The real situation", in this case, was not that you sent an order, which is what you said earlier. It was that you sent a message that was not an order, and tried to claim that it was an order, in direct defiance of a rule Tom had laid down.
Knowing and understanding that much should tell you all you need to know to figure out that you don't need to worry about getting bolted for sending orders.
