Month one and two they are 'ramping up' Month three and four they pick something inane like what kind of font the web site should use and schedule lots of one

Month one and two they are 'ramping up' Month three and four they pick something inane like what kind of font the web site should use and schedule lots of one on one face-time meetings with higher ups. The higher the better. Month five and six they are now telling everyone their life goal is to be a project manager or that they are training to be a project/program/product manager. Their work is sort of like a project manager. They did the font project. Remember the font project? Simple game theory prevents managers from acknowledging the truth that they are loafing because that might make all management look like all they do is loaf. The guy's direct manager is overjoyed that all the higher ups are paying attention to the font project.