I thought the business world realized quotas for rankings is not good.
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Amazon is the one that popularized that nonsense. I just wouldn’t work for those companies to begin with.
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Was, most places removed this because they found that it was causing major issues. AFAIK Amazon is the only holdout of the big names.
MS killed it ten years ago because it was hugely counter productive:
Google it’s hard to tell if they used it but AFAIK they don’t now. So on and so forth.
Most places came to the conclusion that having employees sabotage each other to keep their jobs was a bad design. Moreover it didn’t have the desired effect because lying to people hinders growth.
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yeah…its trash…so are companies and persons who push it.
Why can’t I like your post more than once?
Wasn’t actually Amazon IIRC, but MS. Ballmer’s metrics baby that Bezo picked up because like Ballmer he cares more about metrics than reality. Amazon suffers as a consequence.
Welcome to working for a publicly traded company where there are no rungs on the ladder.
when I hear ‘quotas’ I think about all those people who have been victimized by cops who were filling ‘quotas’
Literally saw it happen down the road in here some years back.
cops abused the hell out of a few people trying to meet their ticket quota.
It was so bad they were sued in a class action suit that broke the township and it was absorbed by the city. Still has the name, but no authority or PD anymore. city police since then.
All because two cops were trying to meet some damned speeding ticket quota and it turned bad.
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If it was the town in Kansas; they changed I think federal law because of that. Cities are no longer allowed to have more than some minor percent of their general fund from police activity. Because cities were stopping motorists and seizing cars randomly too.
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I had to fire 22 people last week. Twenty of them were good employees.
The last ten of them the day before we handed out annual bonuses.
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In the end, everyone in the indie scene ends up selling out first chance they get, moving on to lives of more money, and leaving their former employees under some new corporate behemoth.
How do the sellouts look themselves in the mirror? Well, turns out it’s pretty easy.
no…Ohio here.
But that is interesting to hear. Nice.
Some of our townships around here have been horribly abusive over the years.
IIRC the DOJ has an entire squad dedicated to cracking down on it now. Because a few towns were getting over 80% of their budgets from police work. To the point that in some cases literally the entire town worked for the city and it existed basically as a racket.
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you can tell in this thread from the comments, who grew up earning participation awards and who actually had to work/compete to stand out.
here they were pulling over anyone at 36MPH in a 35, lol, and giving them HUGE fines.
The one you guy they pulled over had kids in the car. He was irritated that they pulled him over for ONE mile over the limit so they dragged him out of the car and beat the hell out of him and his wife. Some older lady got involved trying to get the kids to safety, so they beat the hell out of her too.
I wouldnt even drive thru the township at all until the city took it over. We’d drive on side streets around it just to avoid the risk.
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This is not just blizzard. I have to do the same thing at my job. I have 23 employees. Out of a 1-5 scoring system I had to give 21 of them 3s. The two I gave 4s to I had to go infront of a board of senior management to justify it.
See also: Civil forfeiture, where cops can just take people’s money and property. All they have to do is say it was involved in a crime. Don’t have to prove it. Just have to say it. They’ve been abusing the hell out that.
Don’t get me started on qualified immunity.
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Can’t expect change if you ignore the problems.
Or do you like that large companies practice this way?
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I mean WOW classic is already at their last expansion, after that people should be ready to move on.
But you’re praising Microsoft for buying Blizzard when Microsoft themselves do this too
So ms kettle, meet Mr Pot
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