Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

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Why does everyone pick the worst examples on Earth to illustrate OOP, anyway? In TC++PL, Bjarne uses employees and their subclass "manager" to demonstrate inheritance. Yeah, let's just spend a chapter modeling something no one in their right mind would actually do. It's no wonder OO confuses people, when this is how it's taught.