Job descriptions are not buffet plates you can load up with as many things as you want, but that doesn't stop some managers from trying to pile on tasks they want you to do and pretend the rest of the menu doesn't exist

Their goal is always the same. Get one person to do the work of three while swearing the contract says so. This time it's a developer who joins a team that is already hemorrhaging people. No projects land on the desk. Everyone twiddles thumbs and comes and goes as they please. Then someone higher up asks what the team is actually doing. Suddenly, busy work floods in like a dam broke.