Post #2204748
2026-05-04 15:17 UTC
(IT also seems to think that answering users' questions is busywork to automate, so my heuristic "the people closest to the work understand it best" may not be 100% correct ;) )
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@nyhan@fediscience.org 2026-05-04 15:20
Personally I think that a lot of the paperwork for spending money seems like busywork -- really, you want me to check the box in a spreadsheet that I am not going to travel to Iran or North Korea or Cuba, then have my boss print it out and sign it, then have the department admin scan it, all so I can participate in a free online conference? -- but maybe someone with knowledge of compliance processes could pick out better than I can which bits of the process are busywork and which are actually necessary