Uniblab lives.
Posted on 05/02/2019 6:21:14 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Jack Welch would be pleased. A friend tan a small unit of high performers. Yet he was required to fire the lowest of the best due to Welch’s rules.
I’m of a work ethic where conversations with fellow employees are of a walk by nature. But I’m concerned that Amazon is bringing back robber baron style capitalism, where you feared for your job if you took a bathroom break and lunch.
Uniblab lives.
Like teachers. I think 5% of our district’s teachers are getting paid to not work(out on leave). I know 3 that scheduled their surgeries for the first week of school
Thx 1138 you are not taking your medications.
And it some cases you would be right. There are extremes on both sides. These certainly are different times we are living in.
Ah...must have been like Intel’s R&R system...Ranking and Rating
I worked at several companies that regularly did this across the board. We didn’t need robots. In one technology development company, managers used scoresheets with a lot of metrics to stack-rank every employee in our division on overall performance. If you were in the bottom 10%, you were done for. If you were in the bottom 10% to 25% group, you’d better be polishing up your resume.
In other companies where I led Sales Operations, sales people were ranked every day on a leaderboard which aggregated five to ten performance metrics. Low performers left all the time, voluntarily or not.
If you are in business and NOT doing this, you won’t be in business long. How else would you build a high performance organization?
I’ve received a lot of Amazon boxes lately where the tape wasn’t wetted enough and only about 1/4 of it is actually stuck to the box. It really is a wonder that the box didn’t pop open and spill its guts in the plane or truck.
Lies! ...all LIES! Everything “educators” do is “for the children”...No?
That is funny (in a very perverted way) that they used up all the potential employees in a town and had to move to the next town. Sounds like locusts descending on a town.
But if the robot was programmed by whitey, it’s going to have a built in bias.
Well, for a while, meth sales are up. ;)
I have worked for companies which evaluated everyone on metrics as well.
The end result was that employees spent more time and energy trying to game the metrics than doing any actual productive work.
As a manager, I never fired anybody.
I laid out what the job required of
them, and if they couldn’t meet the
requirements, they fired themselves.
On three occasions I have gotten wrong amounts shipped to me via Amazon. Some DVDs and some hardback books.
If you have ever seen videos of the robots that “pick” to orders, sometimes it grabs 2 DVDs instead of one or two books.
The first time I got them I contacted Amazon to ship back the extra copy.
They don’t want them. They said “just keep it.”
Obviously it is more expensive to restock the item and re-ship it back than to just let you keep it.
The next 2 times I just kept it and gave the extra away to someone.
Ain’t capitalism great?
AOC saved NYC from the evil robot masters. /S
This is an interesting article, since my oldest son just got his first job at an Amazon fulfillment center I’m going to show him this article so he knows to keep on his toes and not lag behind. I don’t really want him to lose this job..
There is no doubt gaming went on, but it was always uncovered. Simple, well thought out metrics are hard to game.
Loading your sales pipeline with junk was easy to do. Moving deals through the early stage of the pipeline was easy — just hold lots of meetings and bring SEs to give lots of presentations.
It was far harder to fake closed deals. Bookings are bookings — a signed contract wasn’t something you could easily game.
The SEs always caught on to the fact that you weren’t closing sales and would stop giving presentations to your prospects. Then you were really high and dry.
Those that expended energy gaming the system and not delivering results didn’t last long.
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