Now this has to be expensive.

Following procedures and doing the documentation is dull, but you had better do it anyway.

Via the effbot.

Now, of course, people are thankfully moving away from documentation and procedure heavy methodologies these days. But if you feel that a procedure or document is unnecessary, get it removed from the procedures that you are using. Don't just not follow them.

Once, fifteen years ago or so, when I was an operator (and a young know-nothing), I didn't bother to fill in a form when printing cheques. The batch of cheques got lost by someone, and the company didn't know which range of cheque numbers to cancel. I nearly lost my job over it.