Bend with the Wind

Yes, of course: it's easier.

So easier: You get the order - it makes no sense. Endless complications of a simple operation. Information wanted that no one will read. Three different directives that add up to a melange of data impossible to decipher - without another report to decipher the first report.

Or, more probably, sit on a corner pile orphaned and neglected.

So why do you go along with it? Theorectically you're paid for your skills and expertise in, at the very least, this small matter? Why did you spend yesterday and today mindlessly filling in a spreadsheet that you know reflects no reality - just because someone or two or three managers gave you a half-formed thought that included a binder filled with pretty, multi-colored pages filled with numbers and words?

The Chinese or somebody have a proverb about the weak grass and the mighty oak: one bends with the wind, one breaks. So The Cube understands why you bend. You are grown from seeds planted by a reward system that favors compliance and activity.

Question to Adam Smith: Does capitalism ever mow the lawn?