Sat in a McDonald's watching two staffers try to mop a floor.

I'll be honest, I'm very close to taking it away and doing it myself.

I cannot stand "busy work" do it properly or don't do it at all.

This is what happens when you have leaders/managers that subscribe to the idea that their workers needs to do something all of the time.

Doesn't matter if there literally isn't anything to do

@inaba true, but then the floor really needed a mop, and the mop really needed some fresh water

@ArcaneEye yeah, I was temping in an office and offered to help with anything, one guy asked me to do some admin inside Salesforce.

20 minutes later, his pipeline complete I was given everyone else's pipeline to do, not my fault I know my way around Salesforce properly.

An hour in and I'm finished what would have been by their admission a week's work done (judicious use of 40+ tabs to sidestep page load times) back to stuffing envelopes....

I faked a migraine the next two days until they told me not to come back.

I just couldn't face the envelopes anymore.

This is the problem with hourly wages: The longer something takes, the more they get paid for it.

Pay the project instead and watch productivity increase.