...in the horrendous general stench of the processes at most workplaces I've ever been. Or OK, maybe still not all that hard to detect -- but what's the use? Pointing out any one small thing feels futile, when fixing it won't make a noticeable difference to a system that is fucked up from the ground up.

Hmm... Has it always been this way? Maybe it has, and I just didn't notice, decades ago. (Younger, [even more] naive, took the typical bureaucracy of the day for granted?) But I'm fairly sure it's got a lot worse, a lot more rigid and un-circumventable, in the last decade or so... Ever since corporations went "Agile". In quotation marks, of course, because they really aren't.