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by englishspot 685 days ago
> Should I help my coworker through a problem? End of the month, my KPIs might be negatively impacted, whereas theirs were boosted.

I feel like helping a coworker should be factored into your performance. "force-multiplier", or however the industry calls it. but then, I've never worked at a toxic, hyper-competitive rank-and-yank..
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sangnoir 685 days ago
> feel like helping a coworker should be factored into your performance.

This is how you get voting rings where there's an old guard on the team who help each other get good reviews, and a steady stream of sacrificial team members who are doomed to be in the bottom x% regardless of their competence. "Hire to fire" is another symptom of this blight.

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consteval 685 days ago
The better the KPIs are the more abstract they become, eventually being impossible to measure.

These are rough, rough approximations of the human condition. The idea is that you can lossily compress 40 hours of work into 1 number, about a centimeter across on a computer screen. You WILL lose a lot of data.

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