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by mrguyorama 595 days ago
If you need metrics to see an employee isn't doing what you assigned to them, what are you even being paid to do?
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You’re being paid to make your whole team as effective and capable as possible while satisfying your leadership and stakeholders. And to help your boss do that with his team by developing your peers. And…

Detecting slackers efficiently is simply never going to be a top priority. You have to trust your people. Usually it’s incredibly rewarding.

Inflating the engineering department head-count, a very important metric for c-level resumes.