Apple

Nice cafeteria. It was exciting at first, thinking I was going to help the famous garage-shop entrepreneur with his dream.

It's just unbelievable that after I hired on, I had absolutely no job assignment, no introduction to the group, and no keys to the group area. I just sat there waiting, waiting, waiting.

No matter how much I studied the product line and showed how I could use my skill set to really help them where I knew help was needed, all I got was nothing: no communication, no job assignment.

So I watched a critical product get delayed, and delayed, and delayed. Instead of analysis and calculations, their approach to solve the problem was to have meetings, meetings, meetings on and on with a bunch of people who couldn't care less, staring at their cell phones instead of joining the meeting.

I was like, "This is Apple? RUFKMe?"

By having meetings upon meetings, the manager could lie to the upper management that something was being done.

I looked back at my resume to make sure it didn't say somewhere, "I am skilled at being ignored and tapping my fingers on my desk." Nope, not in there.

If you have a specialist in a field, listen to him and heed his advice.

If you see a team with no energy, no drive, or excitement, why don't you go find out why?