Sure is a lot of this going on in this thread my god lol
The heads at Blizzard have the power to speak up about this and chose not to. It’s not like Bobby Kotick just owns Blizzard and doesn’t care what the higher ups at Blizzard have to say.
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Most other corporations aren’t using this kind of rating model. Many that were have already dropped it, and many others use a modified version that doesn’t prevent superlative scores or absolutely require low scores.
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That’s more or less what an average is, yeah, but I don’t think this means what you think this means. If a group of students all do between A+ and A- work the average will still be an A and those below average will still be A students. With Blizz’ rating system 5% of those with below the average As would have to be given Ds and Fs, and that’s ooked.
Like, if you took world first raiders as a group around half would be below average players. Just how averages work. Doesn’t mean they’re bad players.
And I’m not saying that all workers everywhere are great at their jobs. But half of workers aren’t bad at their jobs, which is what you seem to think ‘below average’ means.
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Microsoft did not start this, but it is good that they came up with a better method. The largest US employer, the federal government uses a rating system and it goes way back. The practice of performance appraisal dates back to the third century when the emperors of the Wei Dynasty (221-265AD) rated the performance of the official family members.
1540-1560, A procedure to formally rate members of the Jesuit Society was established by Ignatius Loyola.
Late 18th century, Performance management theory and practice in the United States started with the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century. Workers were evaluated and paid primarily on the basis of quantity output – the number of “pieces” they satisfactorily turned out
I don’t believe it is most companies but it does happen. At one point I was working for a company that got bought out by a second company. The company I had been working for did not operate this way but the new one did.
Our group was doing fine, our product was doing fine but they rated us with this system anyway. Most of us were put in the average catagory but a few were rated below standard which was not fair. Our IT guy, who we all depended on, was the one rated as poor and was fired along with a lot of other good people around the company. That made no sense.
Luck for the rest of us the system didn’t last. The President of the new company was fired and poor guy, he was forced to take his six million dollar golden parachute.
Throughout my career that was the only company where I worked that had that system. It’s really terrible.
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I should have used ‘models’ for a more generic intent, because…yes…there ARE some degenerate corporations out there using degenerate corporate policies where their employees are concerned, even if its not this one in particular.
The wife had to quit a job she had been at for 14 years over this kind of corporate trash, even though she loved her managers and coworkers.
She was the first of many…most of them ended up quitting over the next two years over it.
One of the issues was firing upper management, store managers and asst mgrs…then offering them their jobs back at a 1/3 pay cut.
they can get away with it because they know someone out there will take the job, even if they cant do it as well.
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A lot of people in companies who do this practice will purposefully try to make sure to rate important employees higher because they depend on them, like your example.
Having to collectively bargain around a system like this makes no sense at all, at that point why not just unionize so that your story never happens.
Which is why these tweets from Holinka suddenly make a lot more sense:
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Source: My backside
Take that line above with most any claim and things will make more sense.
And yes this line above also has the same source…as does the sentence prior…etc
Unfortunately most PDs are set up in a way that if you don’t cover for bad cops, you aren’t going to last long.
Then you got police unions on the scene…
The whole system is rotten.
A true sheep.
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Actually, it was Jack Welch at General Electric that’s best known for starting the whole stack ranking craze in corporate America about 40 years ago.
in a way it is but you cant really expect everyone to quit like that guy did.
but doing that would send a clear message to whoever is behind it heh
at the end of the day ppl need to eat and pay bills so they accept weird things instead of walking out.
Clearly you thought real hard about since you still have an active sub right?
Where do you get this stuff? You want improved quality and yet you figure cutting staff would be just dandy and I guess have no impact? I don’t know what you do or have done for a living but it sure as hell was not software development.
I wonder if a supervisor can give out unlimited bad reviews.
Actually this began with the CEO of GE in the 80’s and has since been found by many companies to be problematic in promoting a toxic work culture that has employees focused on competing with each other rather than working together as a team and resulted in increased turnover.
It is true that some companies continue to adhere to this poorly conceived system which if nothing else does help reign in payroll costs but some major corporations moved off this system years ago such as Microsoft in 2013 and Amazon in 2016. Adobe and Accenture are two more that have also moved away from this after experiencing problems they attributed to being at least in part the result of stack ranking.
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Hardest thing when you have people employed under you, is that sometimes you do have to make the tough calls, which is unfortunate, but it’s how it is, reality is that sometimes running a business is like being a host on The Weakest Link,
I know I’ve been in the position where I’ve had to let someone that worked for me go, it wasn’t an easy decision, but reality is, they were the weakest link, but I do try and make sure that someone has something to fall back on,
Also writing bad reviews for people in this company would be come so easily to me, because basically all I would have to say is that I am disappointed that the employee hasn’t done enough to make the overall player base happy by giving the fans what they really want in the game, if I couldn’t make a decision, I would just run a raffle and give that bad review to some random poor sap, nothing personal, just business 
There will never be a movie made about the Zebra Murders. Because it would politically incorrect.
Just sayin’
I’d imagine Jamie Foxx would disagree with you.
just goes to show you Act / Blizzard hasnt changed at all.
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