Dan and Jim assumed Bill wanted them to do some things he wanted to
get done, so they went ahead and did it and
bitched about Bill being a
slave driver. They also assumed he was a slave driver based on what he looked like. They didn't find out until later he didn't want anything from them, not their help, not their presence, they didn't want to be around him and he didn't want them around him either, even though he never gave any indication he wanted them around.