Librarians

Librarians are masterminds at devising inane, tedious tasks. They may even surpass kindergarten teachers in the matter.

I work for librarians and today I spent an hour paper-clipping long blue strips of paper to square white pieces of paper in a certain specified manner. I also had to sort out a giant bag full of various paperclips, because it was absolutely necessary to use plastic triangular paperclips as opposed to any other kind of paperclip.

When asked by my supervisor, the librarian, to do this ridiculous thing, which she didn't have time for, I asked why such a thing must be done. To which she responded, "I don't know, my boss told me to do it."

...and you're a 40-something-year-old with masters degree who didn't bother to ask why such a thing is necessary.

I am shocked by the casual insanity of it all. This is only one of the many subtly strange, obviously meaningless tasks I've been asked to devout my time to. And whenever I point out some simple way of making the idiotic chore more efficient I am, without fail, lauded for my brilliant technical knowledge. It's like a cruel prank by renegade psychology majors.