I work from about 09:00 - 09:25 every day and then watch YT / Netflix until 5. Nobody

Ah, the power of a DB, easy to work with and everything it's automatic

There is so much bloated overhead at these types of companies that this post could be true. I work for a major grocery chain and have FIVE people I directly report to, but none of them answer to the other four. We literally have to change how we are doing something depending on who's going to audit us, because no one has said, "Hey, why don't we have only one fucking chain of command?" As long as only his work gets audited and not his actual job, he's sitting pretty. BUT if a merger or buyout happens, he'll be the bloat that gets cut loose.

I worked at a school teaching IT computer related courses and they use a paper based system for everything yet they claim to be the leaders in IT,

They didn’t say they were the only analyst. He even says “they never thought of...” and “I work as A data analyst...” not “The data analyst.” I had a job as an analyst many moons ago. We had a team of many analysts in my department alone and that was a multinational multi billion dollar company- but not a Fortune 500. Through simply using the tools smarter than others- not even automation- I could do literally up to 10x the work in the same day as the others. It got me in trouble in fact- my work was 99.9% accurate- and stood up to audit long after I left- but I was told that such huge metrics implied careless work. So I needed myself to about 1.5x the work of others and did lots of drawing and other things since I’d finish my work most days well before lunch.

So from personal experience it doesn’t strike me as very unbelievable that a large company would employ teams of independent analysts each responsible for certain segments of data or a piece of a collaborative work, and the idea that the system would be highly inefficient and you could sit on your duff and make good money also doesn’t strike me as off. I actually thought of automating large portions of my job but realized that if discovered I’d certainly be fired, and likely they’d then use my automation to downsize and or pay cut the entire department. So I stuck to just working smarter and it paid off. I moved on since it seemed a waste to be easily comfortable for decent money when I could take my skill set to a position where I’d have to actually work and grow, but I’d also get paid more and have more opportunity- and of course it would be harder to figure out how to replace me with a machine!