Everyone will be a VP soon. The org chart is bloated with VP's and the VP's themselves are bloated. Talent gets you nowhere in Telecom management especially in Uniti/Windstream culture. About 75% of all VP's are crony appointments and the others are Telecom lifers with talent but waiting for their severance package.
VP's! It's VP's ALL THE WAY DOWN! The job title bloat is unreal but what do you do in a shrinking industry full of telecom lifers.
Divorced. Single. Overweight. Addled. One edge about protecting turf. Submissive to whoever promoted you no matter how bad the ideas are. Terrified of the next org-change from left field. How much time do VP's and other inflated job titles spend defending turf vs adding value to customer and products?
The AI slop projects are great for bonuses, promotions, and raises but never produce anything more than nice power points and telecom blog hype. "If you build it they will come" was a great movie line and maybe someday it will get built and maybe someday the users and customers will come to demand the thing they don't yet need and never asked for.