Comment by nostrademons
2 months ago
It's the natural result of "fire the bottom 10% every year".
If that's the rule in your organization, and you have a core group of people that actually know the systems and get the work done, you better make sure you have 10% padding every year, lest you layoff someone important and their friends all quit in disgust. And since competence and institutional knowledge is built over time, that implies a revolving door of new folks coming in and most of it not making it.
If both sides know it, working as a "churney" can be pretty chill. Like being put on the roof from the getgo.
Lol. Isn't this like being a contractor?
Yes, but your performance review is way more dramatic. Being a PIP-boy for life is not funny, but when they know and you know, it gets something of a comedic element.
You may knock this system but it's what made General Electric the company it is today!
Which is a F500 company.
> Which is a F500 company.
And used to be an F5 company.
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Maybe 1/10 of the new hires replace 1/90 of the existing old timers. You need some creative destruction.
Workers as cattle. This is utterly disgusting and the way it’s normalized is even more revolting
> This is utterly disgusting
This is effective. Therefore, normalization of this plays into the workers' hands, gives them information, and gives economic advantage to honest agents.
I mean, you could compare it to any non-capitalist society, where such treatment of workers is declared unacceptable. But what does this translate into in reality? Such strategies are still effective and provide an advantage to those actors who adhere to them. But since firing workers for their relative effectiveness contradicts the proclaimed ideology, such workers are simply accused of random crimes against the country and executed.
so you're saying its not the evil that's the problem its the hypocrisy?
In management terms a human and a printer are the same. Both resources that need to be managed. I hate it.
Absolutely not--the printer is capex, so it's preferable to the humans who are opex.
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We don't send 10% of our printers to the landfill every year just to motivate the other printers.
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