I have dealt with something like this before. To keep it short, a paper process was digitised without any thought, and kept running at great expense, again with

I have dealt with something like this before. To keep it short, a paper process was digitised without any thought, and kept running at great expense, again without any thought. I went for the "why", and found that this whole thing that swallowed 45 man-hours a week could be reduced to a very quick daily cron job. I did that. My manager shrugged. I went to work elsewhere. It showed me how weird large corporations can get, but also how important it is to question requirements.