Sigh.
I work in an office. There's a "mirror image" of our office. They do the same work, and are supposed to follow the same proceedures we do.
I'm at my wits end with this other office. Things are not done the way we do them. We have the big bosses at my office so however we do things is supposed to be gospel. I'm an easy going person though... if you do something slightly different than I do and you get the same results, I'm content.
The other office is not getting things done smoothly at all. It's all the safeties and catches performed by my office which are keeping the mirror office running. Plus the fact that myself and many of my coworkers are doing the mirror office's work for them. Often we're spending much more time putting out fires than it would have taken if things were just done by our own protocols.
I'm a little peon in a relatively big place. There's another peon who is supposed to do the same job as me at the other office (but appears to do half as much). I trained her in April. She went to my office, I showed her what her job is, what others' jobs are, etc. I think there's huge management issues behind this problem, but, I'm a peon -- I don't get to address those.
What I do get is to go to "mirror" office and follow my clone around all day to see what she does and why I have to keep doing her work. Also to see what assinine systems they have set up, who wastes others' times, how the flow could be better ... etc.
I feel very odd about this. Last time I saw her I was teacher and she was student. Now she is worker and I'm observer... critiquer... I'm... THE ENEMY.
My initial thought is to go in and be super friendly to everyone so they don't hate me. I hate people hating me!
Then I think of how I'll need to do absolutely nothing for a whole 8 hours. I'm gonna go bonkers. I'm gonna follow someone around for at least a day. Bah!
Then I think "I'll take notes!" I decide not to comment on how blatantly dumb their "systems" are -- but instead to take notes on how they differ from our own "systems". Then I think... eew... I'd hate someone following me with a notebook all day.
I was asked to do this before and refused. This time I feel like I should go because I'm spending more time doing this other girl's job then I am doing my own. And that means my work is being passed on to techs... it's stretching everyone thin. It needs to be remedied immediately.
Anyone ever been in a similar position before? Got advice? | 
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