Oh man, my buddy learned this the hard way. He helped his cousin do a bathroom vanity without a story stick, just measuring each cabinet as they went. The drawer fronts were all over the place, like a full quarter inch difference on some gaps. They had to shim and recut so much it took twice as long. He won't start a box without one now.

Actually seems like a huge waste of paper to me... all that stuff could just go in a phone note. Ryan_hart38's idea of it being a record is nice, but it's just clutter in a drawer. The system didn't stay the same, it just got heavier.

Man, that story about the boss scheduling meetings just to cancel them is wild. It's like he thought his main job was to be a human pop-up ad. My old manager used to call these "urgent stand-ups" that were just him reading emails out loud to us. We'd all be standing there, tools down, while he figured out his own inbox. Total power move, zero actual work getting done.