Ya know Matt, I've just had a little flashback here.
Ya see, my dearly departed Pop who died in 2004 at age 83, for many years did for a living pretty much exactly what you're describing your job is here.
After his stint in Patton's army during WWII, in 1948 he started working for North American Aviation in Los Angeles, makers of the famed WWII P-51 Mustang warbird, the F-86 and F-100 fighter jets, the X-15 experimental rocket plane, and the B-1 bomber among many other aircraft(and a company which would eventually become known as Rockwell International Aviation in the 1970s and the makers of the Apollo command spacecraft module), and I remember a few times when I was a kid at the dinner table when he'd voice this same complaint about the parts he'd been assigned to inspect and would comment about what he felt was poor decision making by the higher-ups in the company.
(...but then again, I'm sure almost everybody in the workforce, regardless of the industry they're in, has voiced these same complaints at one time of another, haven't they?...I know I DID before I retired from the airline industry about 5 years ago now)
