> What he should have done is spent a week writing a document to senior leadership Except this rarely works. For starters, senior leadership also plays games

> What he should have done is spent a week writing a document to senior leadership Except this rarely works. For starters, senior leadership also plays games only on higher level. Second, they don't like wild cards they can't control. And even more, they don't like people who skip chain of command because they want to control the information that passes up from their organization. And this particular company is extra political. In my team, there were only people who worked there for more than 10 years or less than a year. There is special type of person that feels well working there -- one that is fine doing nothing and playing cutthroat politics game. Everybody else quits right away. It was my mistake for not learning this before I joined. I have now a protocol to look for that kind of thing.