[fsckboy]

>Stack ranking just clumsily says, I'm gonna give x% a bad score, y% a middle score, and z% the top score.

as long as the ordering top/middle/bad is preserved, I don't see a problem. there are entire respected statistic methods based on rank ordering, not raw metrics.

People don't have a right to fall on a normal distribution. Employers do have a right to grow or trim the workforce, and those numbers are driven by factors that are not necessarily normally distributed.

the people who downvote me simply want participation trophys, and "no" is the answer.

You absolutely can argue that Microsoft pursued a system that hurt both Microsoft and its employees, but not by attacking rank ordering.

[psunavy03]

Ah, "participation trophies" and "if you disagree you're a snowflake."

Took this long down the thread for the thought-terminating cliches to start flying around.

[fsckboy]

>Ah, "participation trophies" and "if you disagree you're a snowflake."

actually, my comments have all been about math, and i gave an explanation as to why some people don't like the math. It's your comment that talks about snowflakes.