fly report

The kind of report management likes to collect but never actually read. The more voluminous the better.

(Based on the urban legend of a staff member who was hired without a formal job description, and was asked at the end of the month where his report was, so he started counting how many flies landed in a particular place on his office desk)

Joe Tard (manager): Jack, I need your report... It's absolutely critical that I have it for the management meeting.
Jack Jobless (staff member): Joe, it's about how many flies landed on my desk! It's just a damned fly report.
Joe Tard: I don't care, that fly report is crucial to management decisions.

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