Ah, but what if you don't know the task is necessary? It might be necessary from the perspective of the greater organization, but not from your perspective. You might consider it wasteful B.S. But from another perspective it is useful. That's only one way I can think where a workplace might have a certain amount of bullshit, I'm sure there are others.

I would also like to distinguish between toxic and abusive behavior (which I don't think anyone should tolerate) and a certain amount of B.S. The latter can vary across a spectrum, but is tedious, or frustrating, or annoying, not psychologically harmful.