I lead a team of four engineers. Every week I ask for a status report because I have to put one together.

They are like 15 minutes of work which, yes, we all hate. But at the end of the day I get why people three levels above me need teams to roll up the status of our infrastructure.

So yesterday I have someone mail me, my boss, my bosses boss, my bosses bosses boss, and yes my bosses bosses bosses boss a note saying how hard the reports are too much, suck up too much time, and should be every other week.

That's right.... He sent a note up the chain of command all the way to the C-level over a 15 minute status report.