What stands out the most to me is how much pointless work is being produced for managers who don't actually know about or understand the content. What's the point?

When I was in college, I had a job reshelving books. Each book cart had three shelves on each side, but only the top two were generally used. My friend moved books from one cart to the bottom shelves of others, making it look like he had shelved hundreds of books. He was promoted to a desk job for his "excellent" work, while I was stuck shelving books for two years. Our friendship did not last long.

In science class last year, when my teacher would assign an essay or essay type work, (on Google Docs) he would have certain requirements (12 point font size, Ariel font, 1.5 spacing)

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How much do you want to keep your job? As for over demanding clients, as long as you don't charge them for the imaginary changes -- why not? There are people who will never approve the first few submissions.

Let me come across some of these idiot employees.

A lot of these are based on a manager who is not actually paying attention to the work. So not one cares. These are poorly managed companies

my language teacher wants a summary of a book, topic doesnt matter, she only wants to see our ability making paragraph smoothly my other teacher wants a summary of a book about life of traditional tribe in my country i made 2 copy of 1 summary, sent it to both teacher, passed with satisfactory result

In other words, everyone writing in this post was utterly dishonest, and it never fazed them, nor does it likely do so now, and they maintain their extremely low standards of performance. Pathetic, adults in the working world and as college students, doing such bull excrement!

I used to work in a small market research company as the combined research assistant and receptionist. I was responsible for collating and proofreading all the incoming information, and calculating some of the statistics. The male boss was easygoing, but lady boss was hard to work for a majority of the time. I remember one time, we had a new survey data pack come in, and I had a bit of free time (totally unusual), so I prepared one of the standard files a couple of days before it was needed - and she told me off for wasting time. Then 3 days later the same week, she asked me for that very file. *shakes head*

Huh. I never did those things with essays. Regardless of ones opinion on essay word count requirements, the requirements challenge your brain, which is exactly what higher education is suppose to do. Rise to the occasion and expand your skills instead of taking the lazy way out.

Had a boss who would print emails and have me file them in binders. She was older and not very computer literate. Oh so many binders! That's when I learned that the paper shredded is your friend.

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People complaining about theft, stealing etc. You read the title of the thread right?