Sentence examples for pointless work from inspiring English sources

Another common sight was huge groups of people obliged to spend the day doing pointless work.

Children will benefit from an accountability system that creates less pressure and less pointless work for their teachers but fosters innovation and collaboration.

He pre-empted a rhetorical proposal made centuries later by John Maynard Keynes: since pointless work was better than none, the unemployed could be paid to build a pyramid on Salisbury Plains, or transport Stonehenge to London.

Even though Empire gave it a good crack a while ago, unpicking the various timelines hinted at in the Terminator films (let's not include the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show here, because I don't want to live in a world where the lead singer of Garbage turning into a murderous robotic urinal is canon) is a pointless work of backbreaking labour.

Take a step back and think -- does it make any sense to do pointless work; work that's meaningless?

We're also increasingly disengaged from all this new and extra (and sometimes entirely pointless) work we're forced to do, and it's carrying a large productivity cost as well.

It's just pointless extra work.

The latter represents the "servile tradition perfected", which is to say, disagreeable of aspect and dedicated to pointless hard work.

New research suggests that a lot of assigned homework amounts to pointless busy work that doesn't help students learn, while more thoughtful assignments can help them develop skills and acquire knowledge.

The Americans, training this week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., having deemed it pointless to work out at high altitude, will be facing a wounded but still dangerous Mexican team fighting for its pride.

It's almost pointless to work during the weekdays".