I just sounds better if you don't listen

At work we have this really really irritating way of processig the clothing that comes through. First we pull the pallets off the truck, then break them down. The boxes, however, are mixed in their contents, so we'll have things for four or five different departments in one box. So we'll go through every box and remove all the accessories, then stack the boxes up. Once the boxes have all been rifled through we tehn go through them again, taking all the plastic wrapping off, and sorting them out on a conveyor belt according to department. Then, once that's done, we'll go through and tag them all with thsoe anti-theft tags. Then we hang them on their hangers. But wait, there's more. We also get stuff in that's already on hangers, so we hang these all up at the same time as taking the acessories out, strip the plastic off them, tag them, take them off their hangers, then hang them on our hangers. A normal shipment of two to three pallets will take all day to process, and a big shipment we may have started theft-tagging by the end of the day. It's a horribly slow process, mostly because of the number of times we handle the merchandise before it goes anywhere. A number of times we've suggested processing straight out of the box, with someone sorting, stripping, tagging, and hanging in an assembly line. At the very least, we could save a ton of time if we just combined all the sorting tasks into one, instead of unpacking and repacking everything first. This is fairly obvious to anyone who works in the warehouse, the incredible ammount of time wasted by tripple, quadruple handling. A new girl was back there with us today and she asked me why we do it the way we do. My only real response: company policy. I've asked and got no real answer. About 40 minutes later the store manager comes in, and she asks him. The first time he talks right over her, and just tells her it'll be faster if she moves the box she's unpacking closer to her. So she asks again. In a very low, unconvinced voice "well, this is the faster way of doing it..."

Yeah, they have your soul, admit it and we'll have pity on you.