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I think it was during the 80's a Tv play about a high rise office block, all the employees busy busting numbers and going through the usual torment of doing a standard job.

Until one of them discovered that these jobs had been created as had many more in similar office blocks to keep the unemployment figures down, footstep reminds me of that, totally useless but what the hey, 40 odd thousand less on the over all country unemployment figures, so it must be a plus.
By the way, next time your down the dole, go on their machine and look for bootstrap vacancies, non of my searches come up with anything.