He says let Bobby Kotick bite the big one and enjoy the quota.
EDIT: For Context
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/blizzard-manager-departs-in-protest-of-employee-ranking-system/ar-AA16EYSI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=35db14bf961146ce8b68c0b79aa2bac1
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Most services you use outside of WoW do the ranking system
Are you going to protest for those companies too
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Really, cause microsoft stopped doing that in 2013. Seems like something that wouldn’t have happened had microsoft owned the company.
The answer is no, it’s the same thing when you ask the morality kings/queens what kind of phone they’re using, and it was made by a child in a different country.
ain’t no one protesting the phone manufacturers tho, people just bring up morals when it helps an argument.
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Wrong cause I proved it otherwise yesterday
This is at least the third thread on this where you defend blizzard’s terrible practice.
I don’t know why.
But here you are again, saying that other places also do the bad thing so it’s therefore not bad. Which by itself is deeply flawed logic, but here we are again!
Most of those have realized that it’s a terrible system and stopped using it… because it’s terrible. And as you know from the last three threads you tried defending it in notably Microsoft stopped using it because it was terrible a decade ago.
There’s probably going to be a 4th thread about this, and probably a 5th as well. I’m sure you’ll be there defending Blizzard’s terrible practices. Maybe I’ll see you there!
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Glassdoor reviews from former Microsoft employees tell you otherwise
You can’t use your decade old article forever
That is the flawed argument I’m talking about.
If someone does something bad.
Someone else doing the bad thing doesn’t make it less bad.
And throwing out an anonymous screenshot from the internets posted by Rando McRanderson who we only know as “Former bing team” isn’t exactly a reliable source.
I’m sure you’ll die on that hill though.
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who even uses msn for news anymore? Oo
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Amazon and IBM still use the management system.
You’re right, my bad. Next time I’ll link the Fox News article so you can see it’s not from a fake/bought-off news outlet.
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Why do people love to defend bad systems? Bootlicking bobby isn’t going to get you closer to his 20 yachts.
Let’s use indeed then if you refuse to see what REAL former Microsoft employees say then!
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Microsoft/reviews?fcountry=US&ftext=Stack+rank#
2018 review:
The heinous “stack rank” system of annual reviews sent a lot of otherwise good people packing.
January 2018 review:
Be prepared to work hard, though you will get reward very well. The key to survival is to always move so no target is on your back. Do what is called the low hanging fruit. You will be measured on when you enter your time, submit reports, quarterly training, etc. This is all used to stack rank you, thus create poor performers. They figure that 10% of staff each year are poor performers, so they create false means to manage you out.
Your “decade old article” says they don’t but it’s still very alive in another form
That’s probably Bobby K’s Publicist paid to make him look better since he desperately needs it.
Again, this is the third post now in this thread where you are making the argument that:
Someone did a bad thing.
BUT someone ELSE also did a bad thing.
So therefore I’ll keep linking that someone else did a bad thing.
And then that will make the first bad thing less bad!
And that’s just not how logic, facts, or reason works.
I bet you’re going to do it again!
Lets all find out together!
A decade old article becomes invalid when you have people complaining their new system that is really stack ranking but Microsoft calls it another term
You refuse to read said employee reviews because it doesn’t fit your narrative
Most companies do this bad thing but you don’t protest for those other companies either because you got to have that cool looking iPhone!
Bobby K’s Publicist doesn’t understand just cause he can prove another company still does bad thing that doesn’t absolve Activblizzard of doing said same bad thing.
That didn’t take long.
I’ll say this for you Zumakind, your bootlicking is at least very consistent!
Lets see if you go back in for the other boot!
Not bootlicking when you’re praising for a company to buy Blizzard that is going to implement their own version of stack ranking
And a year or two later someone who got fired for not working their job will rant of his termination and then you’ll be in threads like “Microsoft why are you doing this to Blizzard employees :(”
I mean, as much as we want to believe that former employees are salty, stack ranking has basically made Amazon a cutthroat place to work. Stack ranking has always been this “great on paper, horrible in practice” way to run a business outside of short-term jumpstarting productivity. In this case, we see the negatives of someone having to be considered the underachiever in a good team.
Thats what Brian’s issue was. However, the management style is still used in a variety of other modern companies that seem to have a better balance of using it than Amazon or previously Microsoft.
Personally, creating a work environment that is always a competition doesnt make a cohesive work environment.