I work for a large organization with many levels and locations of managers who produce nothing of value imo. I have noticed over the years here are some of the things they think qualify as work for themselves:
1 – Forwarding emails that have already gone out to everyone from another manager to show they agree with them.
2 – Creating lists of people and offices that haven't done something as quickly as they want, and telling them it is a priority. Everything is always a priority.
3 – Holding zoom meetings for all offices where the topic only pertains to a few offices.
4 – Making us do yet another report showing that we did our jobs. For some tasks I do, I have to fill out four different reports saying I did it – the reports sometimes take longer than the task itself.
5 – Reminding us to do things we do successfully everyday as if they didn't remind us we would suddenly forget to do our jobs.
I think often about the Office Spaces line when he says I have 8 different managers, and think how lucky he was…….