However, that excitement soon faded. “HR said they wanted fresh ideas from young people, but that was not really happening,” he says.

His marketing manager, 13 years his senior, often found his content unclear or unconventional.

In the first two weeks, each 300-word post required over five rounds of revisions. Eventually, all his original ideas ended up being altered.

Hire someone for a creative job. Committee the creativity to death. Wonder why employee is unhappy.

I’m not saying you have to give your employee free reign but you hired someone and then ignored them, maybe the company is wrong.