The Young and the Talented

Dave was a young and talented employee.  With an undergraduate degree and masters from a top tier college, Dave had a sense of practicality attached to his degrees which is less common than you would imagine.

Dave was working for a about half a year when functional management needed to fill a position and they approached Dave with a great career opportunity.  Not knowing how functional managers more or less flat out lie about the upside of “opportunities” Dave took the bait.

Within no time Dave settled into his new position.  Six years of college was finally paying off!   His full time job was now getting signatures on documents so they could be released.  Just to make sure we’re on the same page, Dave wasn’t creating new documents or even updating existing documents, Dave was walking a signature page around for people to sign.  Often times Dave would get board at work so he would go to his car to listen to music or take a nap, or he’d work Sudoku puzzles to keep his brain from atrophy.   After about a year and a half of being a professional signature gatherer, with no clear exit path, Dave decided to move on to greener pastures.

Because the function managers banish the young and the talented to a life of gathering signatures I throw rocks.