Your telecom equipment manufacturer probably did not exclaim that the inventory taking was high priority and needed to be done in overtime as well. In fact if t

Your telecom equipment manufacturer probably did not exclaim that the inventory taking was high priority and needed to be done in overtime as well. In fact if their goal was learning they probably would have spread the work out to only a few hours a day so that you get maximum retention of the knowledge. It's the hurry up busy work that is so bad. In one of my jobs, I was providing technical support to sales for major accounts. It was challenging work which involved reading RFPs in languages that I did not know very well to catch where the sales team was misunderstanding technical requirements. Sometimes there was hurry up work to meet a prospect's deadlines. And we only won about 5% of the bids that I worked on. But it still felt good to do the work. I knew that it wasn't wasted any more than a football practice session is wasted. It was a competition. I wonder if there is some way to incorporate gamification into the enterprise to solve this problem.