You can hire a temp cleaner instantly in almost any city. They literally wasted more money arguing with engineers than they would paying for the work to be done.
> Be thoughtful in what you evaluate as a "bogus" task.
Well, no. a business is all about money and if the engineers can bill they shouldn't waste their time on anything else. Management in a firm basically exists to facilitate billable hours so the employee here is right, both personally and professionally, in realizing that this is not only silly but corporate suicide.
> What is hard or complex isn't always what is important or noticed.
This is true. If you have a chance to pick your boss's suit up before a meeting or drive them to the airport it is probably worth doing, little favors go a long way.
