One thing employers almost unanimously do is encourage collaboration, promote synergy, and do deep dives into core competencies in order to close the loop on big data and growth hack deliverables… While no one is completely sure what any of this means, there's a chance that your boss has used one of these phrases in order to promote whatever thing they're pursuing, and it remains certain that collaboration is often at the forefront of company initiatives.
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This contractor, however, shared their story about how the operations officer at the tech firm where they were working prohibited workers from deviating from their assigned tasks, effectively banning collaboration. So, of course, when a project the team was working on encountered an issue that they weren't assigned to fix, they opted to comply with the directive maliciously, and the contractor ensured that they were strictly adhering to their tasks as instructed—which did not include fixing the simple issues to progress the project. Eventually, the company realized what everyone had already realized: that strict rules with no flexibility or balance are stupid. So, the operations officer was reassigned to a different department and projects were able to resume as normal.
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