Volume 08

Honest Job descriptions

16 roles · Organized by industry

The corporate job descriptions that say the quiet part out loud.

Industry

IT / Tech

The people who keep the systems running, the roadmaps moving, and the straightforward answers safely out of reach.

Sees the disaster, documents the disaster, gets blamed for insufficiently preventing the disaster, and owns fixing it.

Title, compensation and authority remain safely protected from unnecessary change.

Ensures every presentation is compatible with the opinions already in the room.

Routes accountability toward the people least equipped to refuse it.

Explains why the system behaved exactly as designed and why that is still unfortunate.

Excavates ancient decisions from layers of agendas, minutes, and institutional denial.

Communicates with systems whose original developers have crossed to another company.

Removes assumptions by replacing them with documented uncertainty.

Adds the commentary the code review process was designed to suppress.

Transforms straightforward facts into strategic narratives dense enough to prevent understanding.

Predicts exactly what leadership hoped to hear for one dollar per prophecy.

Responsible for every failure and absent from every success.

Treats a full calendar as a completed deliverable.

Builds magnificent strategies on foundations of assumption and selective evidence.

Industry

Where every final draft is provisional and continuity is a creative interpretation.

Rewrites tomorrow’s scenes using yesterday’s continuity during today’s filming.

Everyone assumes Graphics was told. Graphics still owns the deadline.