As a federal state and municipal contractor of ten years I can say from experience the higher up in government you go the more exponentially wasteful their policies are and meaningless the average task becomes.
For example I spent maddening weeks changing fonts back and forth and trying to get the same number of records per page (as the original access version) in a report 100,000 pages long that nobody will ever read, print, or analyze with tools. (it was a PDF)
I am convinced they were taking sheets from the report I wrote and printing them out on transparencies which were overlaid on the old report so they could tell me to move things around one pixel at a time.
For example I spent maddening weeks changing fonts back and forth and trying to get the same number of records per page (as the original access version) in a report 100,000 pages long that nobody will ever read, print, or analyze with tools. (it was a PDF)
I am convinced they were taking sheets from the report I wrote and printing them out on transparencies which were overlaid on the old report so they could tell me to move things around one pixel at a time.