I spend a significant portion of my work-week defending my employment - inputting time cards, updating JIRA tickets with "time spent", attending status meetings

I spend a significant portion of my work-week defending my employment - inputting time cards, updating JIRA tickets with "time spent", attending status meetings... all in the name of "efficiency". And on some level, I understand - nobody wants a Dilbert-esque Wally type wasting space. Yet the corporate attempts at maximum efficiency fail more horrifically than you would be able to imagine anything failing. Not only does the time spent proving that you weren't wasting time waste time itself, it's also so trivially gameable that the people who thrive are the ones who are MOST effective at being silently inefficient.