I made this thread because of two things: realizing that over the course of 3 English lessons I have made 28 pages of notes that I will never use again, and finishing a computing project that was not marked for the actual end result, but for the accompanying documentation. while writing 5 pages on the advanced features of "paint shop pro" for the computing project, I was thinking about other useless documentation. why must documentation be so comprehensive of all things done? why should we care about documentation so much? it serves little purpose outside of industries like finance, security and government agencies, and does nothing in most situations but increase workload. Documents do little to prevent corruption, as there is always some way to falsify a document or to otherwise corrupt the information.
On to "least useful" now, the 28 pages of English notes. At no point in most peoples lives outside of an English class will anything particularly important rest on their ability to analyse poetry, so why is it the only mandatory subject in school? mathematics and science can both be left out of the curriculum after you reach the senior years, but English must be taught over all else. I am not claiming that communications skills are useless, nor am I claiming that literacy is useless, I am saying that analysis of poetry is useless.
while the past two paragraphs could simply be passed by as mindless venting, I am certainly not the first to encounter useless bureaucracy and lessons. weather it be a staff meeting wherein no actual relevant information has been shared, or a piece of training in the area of "political correctness" (the overdone example of which being sexual harassment).
so, as I said, if bureaucracy is so common, how did it gain such an important place in modern business? it does not seem to serve a useful purpose, but as the capitalist drive for efficiency and cost-cutting continues, how does bureaucracy stay wedged in there, and how did useless pieces of training manage to get to be so important?
On to "least useful" now, the 28 pages of English notes. At no point in most peoples lives outside of an English class will anything particularly important rest on their ability to analyse poetry, so why is it the only mandatory subject in school? mathematics and science can both be left out of the curriculum after you reach the senior years, but English must be taught over all else. I am not claiming that communications skills are useless, nor am I claiming that literacy is useless, I am saying that analysis of poetry is useless.
while the past two paragraphs could simply be passed by as mindless venting, I am certainly not the first to encounter useless bureaucracy and lessons. weather it be a staff meeting wherein no actual relevant information has been shared, or a piece of training in the area of "political correctness" (the overdone example of which being sexual harassment).
so, as I said, if bureaucracy is so common, how did it gain such an important place in modern business? it does not seem to serve a useful purpose, but as the capitalist drive for efficiency and cost-cutting continues, how does bureaucracy stay wedged in there, and how did useless pieces of training manage to get to be so important?
