In the 80’s I worked for a major electric utility. Every two years DOE required us to complete an extensive questionaire re our fuel procurement for our power plants. The results produced boxes of paper. Often a DOE employee would later call seeking some of the same info already submitted in the boxes.
When told the info was already in their possession, they would complain that the boxes were in the basement somewhere and they didn’t want to dig it out. I delighted in telling them that I wasn’t going to do their job for them. They never used the info we were required to submit. They spent their time revising the questions to make sure they were time sensitive. It was a total waste of our time and taxpayer dollars.
Death by Bureaucrap.