one google search of forced distribution and differentiated performance gives you thousands of articles about why it doesn’t work and why it’s terrible for morale and collaboration. yet now we’re forcing people to be ranked and PIPed just to fill a quota. its nonsensical. why am i coming into the office four days a week to “collaborate” with my peers and help them outshine me? why would i bother trying to meet my goals when a percentage of my team has to be ranked low just because it’s required? if you want to let people go just let them go. why do they put us through these humiliation rituals?
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They want us fighting their culture war so we won't fight the necessary class war.
The bourgeoisie maintains power by preventing the proletariat from recognizing itself as a unified class.... It's always been the intention in industrial capitalism to foster competition among workers. Conflict is decentralized and internalized.
You fight for the scraps while MW cashes in on $88 MM of stock options.
There is only one enemy, and it's not your open-floor plan neighbor.
there must be low performing teams to justify the buzz of high performing teams. it's on page 87 of the handbook.
OP, it must be from McKensie or Chevron would not be doing it....
What a clown show. What’s old is new. Hey. I’ve got a way to make it different. We will do 1 to 5 instead of 1 to 3 with pluses and minuses. Great idea Jane from HR. I like how people are getting nervous. It’s still the same process with some lipstick on it. Popularity contest and you better hope your boss has a pair to fight for you. Unfortunately, I drew a bad hand in the selections.
It's not because it's better - it's because it's different.
When you're all out of ideas, you just start changing things and hope for the best, I suppose.
because leaders are taught to treat businesses and people as black boxes. they are interchange identical blocks and you must put money into them and get more money out them. there is room for no further nuance or thought. no room in the framework for human nature or interrelated businesses. there is only the blackrock school of thought.
Because the consultants said so!!!!
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