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by throwaway0a5e
1435 days ago
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>You probably don't realize this, but (in the USA) it's very illegal to actively prevent your employees from unionizing. You need to do some thinking about what the phrase "ROI of your continued employment" actually means in practice. Fines and fees are basically the same thing when they're being levied against huge sociopaths entities like BigCo. Naive "but that's illegal" appeals to emotion do not matter to these sorts of entities because responsibility is so diffuse and compartmentalized that they can't do anything but ruthlessly pursue the sum total of everyone's KPIs. >Having all employees officially have bad performance warnings is one great tool in the toolbox... And how is this any different than if you didn't have the metrics in the first place? If everyone has bad performance nobody does. My point isn't that Amazon isn't doing shady shit. Of course they are. All big organizations are. My point is that metric tracking is at worst a net neutral with potential to be positive. My secondary point is that both the person I initially replied to and yourself have failed to think critically about the situation. A metric that says everyone is under-performing isn't a pretext to dodge accusations of an illegal or otherwise not good pattern of firing anymore than not having the metric at all is. |
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> A metric that says everyone is under-performing isn't a pretext to dodge accusations of an illegal or otherwise not good pattern of firing anymore than not having the metric at all is.
Just because you (and indeed I) think that way doesn't mean the actual social and institutional actors involved will. In any given hearing for a given matter impacting a single employee the data about all the other employees won't even be available to reach the conclusion you discussed. It would take a much bigger more well funded legal action to push the argument you are making. In fact, how do you even know that US law even allows the argument you are making? It very well may or may not.
It's not a perfect tool, but as I said, it's another tool in the toolbox to muddy the waters and make it more expensive and complex to challenge a dismissal.
I think the way you mentally model socioeconomic and legal processes in the human world is not very true to life. Pure logic is not any sort of big magical trump card. Humans are not rational actors.