Yes. When a policy is crazy, the Right Thing is to find out how to either alter that policy or obtain an authorised deviation from it as tatersolid describes.

If you spend an hour a month on something that's required by policy and in your opinion shouldn't be, then six hours invested finding the person who sets that policy and explaining why it's a terrible idea may free up net six extra hours of your life within a year.

That story where the guy comes down a mountain with a stone tablet with Ten Commandments carved into it is (a) a myth and (b) no kind of a way to set effective policy. People can't even agree on what his Ten Commandments were, let alone on following them.