I've had experience as a Team Leader, Ops Manager, GM and COO, this sort of reporting is utterly pointless and a time waster.  It's what you would do to performance manage people out without following the established procedure.

If there are so many people under you that you can't keep track and you need to do this nonsense, then your teams are too big and your structure is all wrong.

It's TPS reports...



It's the kind of thing as a manager, or an auditor, that you do to justify YOUR job, not those under your charge or who you're evaluating.

I thought DOGE was meant to make things more efficient..?

How long has it been since you've had a job SB?

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 2:41pm:


Sounds like you're an inefficient worker.

This sort of bureaucratic inefficiency is precisely what plagues government and corporate environments alike. The obsession with pointless reporting, despite already having perfectly functional tracking systems, exemplifies the kind of managerial overreach that exists solely to justify middle management roles.

Your experience mirrors what would inevitably happen on a mass scale across the federal workforce. The introduction of yet another redundant reporting mechanism would require a new department to process the reports, an increase in administrative bloat, and a significant drain on productivity. The remaining staff, already stretched thin by job cuts, would be forced to waste hours each week on paperwork that serves no real purpose.

The irony, of course, is that this is precisely the kind of wasteful, process-driven nonsense that political figures like Trump and the so-called "anti-bureaucracy" crowd claim to oppose. But when given power, they default to the same ham-fisted, impractical approaches that result in more cost, less efficiency, and a demoralised workforce. Cutting jobs while simultaneously increasing administrative workload is the sort of counterproductive lunacy that only a government, any government, could dream up.

President Musk and Trump were meant to be different I thought?

SerialBrain9 wrote Yesterday at 12:35pm:


Labor, is it? German civil servants. Elon's tweets, keeping mum about his Nazi salutes.

What did you do last week, Serial?

Oh, I know, you won't say.

You've gone.

SerialBrain9 wrote Yesterday at 12:35pm:



works great. Unlike when the libs sacked them then doled out the same money plus more to private contractors to do the same work. Not a cent was saved. But you can bet millions went back to the libs in the form of donations. You've been conned  ... again.

At least with labor it keeps people employed.