I worked on a project once that was a complete mess, they outsourced the QA of the product and the off-shore team was creating hundreds of dupe reports for each

I worked on a project once that was a complete mess, they outsourced the QA of the product and the off-shore team was creating hundreds of dupe reports for each issue they found. Out came the burn-down charts, used as justification for requiring weekend work for the whole team. I got tired of this and grabbed a couple other devs and split up the jira bug backlog between us, and we started closing out dupes and non-repro tickets, after about two days and thousands of tickets closed my manager angrily came over to my cube and demanded I stop because "it was making the company look bad". Sometimes the best option is not to play.