I worked at a printing factory once, and we often needed to replace roller pins for paper, it’s an enormous metal cylinders that, despite being couple of tons hunks of metal, were very prone to being harmed. They were in pairs and should’ve been changed in pairs so they wear out evenly. The problem is, in a warehouse, the item is “a pair of pins” but the task for a repair crew is “change a pin” which includes ordering a transportation. The problem is, if you’re making a “change of a pin” you can only order a “transportation of a pin”, but warehouse can only issue a “pair of pins”, which transportation can’t move. The corpo spent weeks trying to solve this conundrum, until the machine broke completely (a roller pin snapped if you can imagine that). After spending the entire year’s revenue on fixing it all, they fired a bunch of people for following their corporate rules too precisely.