I believe this particular team was a "Forgotten" team as in the Forgotten Employee (https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/si

I believe this particular team was a "Forgotten" team as in the Forgotten Employee (https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/), or "bullshit jobs team". I probably will never truly understand the sufferings and misery of the author. However, the author perhaps was expecting the environment to be challenging in a positive way, with interesting work and motivated colleagues. Unfortunately for the author, the team was complete opposite of it. Recognizing such environments is also a valuable office skill, because then you can decide for yourself if you would like to basically do nothing alongside the team or leave for greener pastures. Being new to the team and trying to make a positive change immediately will only create resistance from the peers and may lead to abuse described in the article. Paradoxically, doing nothing and being conformant with the team nature would have led to positive reviews and much, much less overall misery.