What's the most infuriating/ pointless task you've been asked to do at work?

Every month every department has to make an Excel chart about how many patients everyone had, how many surgeries, how many this and that. We compare those numbers to every month of last year to see how much % growth every department had.

We have to sit all together in a room, everyone is dead tired, nobody wants to be there…but we have to. We read those numbers out loud because our boss wants us to and because he believes that everybody can process those information better when we physically sit there and read the numbers out loud. Like in school when you had to read something in class.

It would be better to just send those charts via mail to everyone and if there are questions: just ask the manager of one of those departments.

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OMG, that sounds like a colossal waste of time and talent indeed :grimacing:

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It is! Everyone hates those meetings :joy:

I see it as a bit of fun.

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one thing most people can relate to is complaining about our jobs.
it’s a good way to connect in my opinion.

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When I was selling newspaper I had to put them behind the doors and to try to fit them there. I hate it