Boss rejects employee's report claiming it's ‘not thorough enough’, employee resubmits a 20-page detailed breakdown as a response: ‘I sent it off and waited’

There's nothing bosses love more than to demand employees put more unnecessary work into something that does not require it whatsoever. It seems like once they became bosses, one of the first things they were told it to try and make their employees' work life as difficult as possible for no apparent reason. We cannot help but picture all those bosses sitting in a room and laughing as their employees struggle with a task no one benefits from (other than the boss, who gets to have a good laugh about it).

How can employees retaliate when their bosses demand useless assignments out of them, that will only waste time? 

Our answer is–ensure that your time is not the only one being wasted with those assignments. Find ways to get the boss involved, and waste their time in response. That way, they'll see how pointless what they asked of you is and will hopefully refrain from demanding similar tasks in the future.

That is what the employee in the story tried to teach their boss, and it seemed like it worked.

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