> We're expected to fail, left out of meetings relevant to our duties, and wither into obscurity with the excuse "well I asked everybody" time and again, forgot

> We're expected to fail, left out of meetings relevant to our duties, and wither into obscurity with the excuse "well I asked everybody" time and again, forgotten and excluded. This sounds like the experience of almost every employee in every industry. Very, very few people get to work on truly influential and interesting problems. And from what I've seen at several big companies, no one simply gets asked to do that kind of work (in a meeting or otherwise). If you want to do that kind of work, you have to find a way to contribute yourself. If you wait for "duties" to be assigned to you, you'll get assigned the work no one else wants to do.