@unknown If this all true your ETLs sound like real jerks. If I was you I would ask, just to verify, if they want you to set WITHOUT checking dates. Then they will have to say yes or no. They say no? Well there you go, you’ve done your parts. Then if a leader wants to jump down your back about FIFO, well you were just following direction.
I started on flow team, and when we got around to pushing market, I was told not to FIFO. That’s what TM handbook says? Well we don’t do that. I knew it wasn’t right but I was following my leader’s direction. Sounds like you’re a good TM under bad leadership. To be fair, your ETLs may have been given the same kind of direction. Who knows hi high up that BS goes.