How do I interpret 理不尽 in this situation?


I was talking with my colleagues about work and my friend described the
following situation:

The boss asked my friend to make a report for a meeting that they had at the
end of the day. He worked really hard on it but then our boss never used it.

Drinking with them later that night, they described the boss/situation/work as
理不尽. I know the dictionary definition is _unreasonable_ or _irrational_ but it
doesn't seem to fit this situation very well. It seemed to be used in the
sense that it was troublesome or bothersome.

Is there a better way to express this feeling in English? I'm struggling to
think of it.




'Unreasonable' is the right translation, and I don't understand why you think
it does not fit, but if you are not satisfied with it, you may want to
consider it as 'being forced into an unreasonable situation' or 'negatively
affected (=being forced to work) unreasonably (= all the efforts were treated
in a way to make them worthless)', etc.

