Back as a teenager working as a stock boy in a grocery store: had to spend tedious hours pulling items up to the front of the shelf. We called it "blocking" or "facing". Tagging and placing items was actually fun and meaningful because you'd see empty shelves get full and people could buy shit. But blocking was pointless, as customers would constantly buy shit and the shelves would need to get redone. Blocking was legit busy work.
To this day, if I grab something from a perfectly aligned shelf, I'll block it because I know how boring it is for the dude doing it.
Present day: My bosses need me to design a series of spreadsheets that take tens of hours to produce and are looked at by no one. And inevitably each year, the format needs to be changed because PMC dude with no tech ability has some clever idea about what needs to be done. So instead of reusing what I've done, I've got to spend more pointless hours redoing it. This year I need to add two new columns for like 50 records, and make graphs.
*you can totally make fun of me for being a white collar nerd... I deserve it
I had a boss who was the same way, he was supposedly a former CEO with an MBA who ran mining operations in Russia and Mexico and he would brag about his career and education all the time but he was absolute dogshit at managing people. He wanted to ramp up production so he hired a whole bunch of new people but he didn't vet them at all so they ended up being mostly dysfunctional drug addicts, then he promoted some of those new hires to leadership positions even though they didn't have any previous experience in that type of job. He would also hold weekly meetings where he would scream at us and call us motherfuckers, which pissed everybody off so bad that someone stole his laptop and broke it.