We’ve all been there: You’re sitting at your Day Job minding your own business when your boss or some coworker comes up and asks you to attend a boring meeting, fill out a pointless report, finish some useless project, or take on a new task that you know will absolutely 100% never benefit anyone or anything. It’s times like this when you sit back, throw your clenched fists in the air, and voice that familiar lament we’ve all felt a million times:
Why do I have to do this????
Being handed pointless tasks at work reminds me of being in middle school when a teacher needed to fill a lesson period and would give us some hastily photocopied worksheet that didn’t even try to teach us anything or hone any skills. Instead, the whole point of the worksheet Continue reading