Comment by saghm

Agreed. Even as a relatively junior engineer at my first job, I realized that a certain amount of the job was not worth exposing interns to (like excessive amounts of Jira ticket wrangling) because it would take parts of their already limited time away from doing things that would benefit them far more. Unless there's quite literally no one "below" you, there's probably _something_ you can do to stop shit from flowing down past you.