[quickthrower2]

“Incentives” if you do this you better make it pay so I never have to leave. If I have to leave to get a payrise then I am getting on the Omega Star team and slowing down their ISO timestamp roll out to get GraphQL on my CV, so I can hit levels.io and get that extra $100k TC. /s but Poes law applies.

[atoav]

I don't think your company is worse off if you get rid of those people by giving them a taste of the real world.

[quickthrower2]

No but "those people" is all people, to some extent. All people have life outside of work, like to make more money, see how unaffordable a house is and say "OK I need to earn $200k a year to raise a family the way I want". While they won't be so brazen, there is some effect of "doing thing thing that leads to the carrot". So the company needs to change that carrot - but it is hard because the whole industry has the carrots.

[atoav]

So what you are saying is you have to live with people who demand not dealing with the result of their work, because the rest of the industry is allowing for such behaviour?

Never before have I heard such a good argument for formalizing the job. If architects or civil engineers were to do the same we had building collapsing left and right.