Posted on 11/23/2023 3:54:03 AM PST by Cecily
Jack Dorsey has announced sweeping changes to his new tech venture Block - including doing away with performance improvement plans.
Three weeks ago, the firm announced it would slash hundreds of workers over the next year to get the headcount down to 12,000 - as much as a 10 percent cut.
The company owns Square, whose Square Register system powers iPad checkout screens at restaurants and cafes that prompt customers to tip.
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“The company owns Square, whose Square Register system powers iPad checkout screens at restaurants and cafes that prompt customers to tip.”
...and beyond usually not even bothering to offer a 15% tip anymore (more like 18%, 20%, or 25%), the damn things calculate the tip only AFTER including the sales tax on the meal. Fortunately, due to not attending public schools, I can figure out the tip in my head by taking the highest number offered and dividing it by 2, which gets me close enough to 15%, before taxes.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I wonder if the good performers are paid well?
In govt, the “little people” generally do their jobs and the first and sometimes 2nd level supervisors are good.
But the senior managers/bosses appointed at the DC level, are too seldom competent.
The govt is like a competent army run by incompetent generals.
The results are, well, what the public gets.
It is amusing at how poorly the govt performs and yet the citizens demand the govt do more.
Tech no exception.
Jack finds it tougher running a company without massive government funding 🤔
I always tip in cash, never as part of the credit card payment. And that’s only for actual table service, where the waiter comes and takes my order and then brings the food. Decent service gets 20% pre-tax.
He should be in jail.
“I always tip in cash, never as part of the credit card payment. And that’s only for actual table service, where the waiter comes and takes my order and then brings the food. Decent service gets 20% pre-tax.”
The thing that I hate are the portable credit card readers that they bring to your table. In one case, in a state already paying a ‘Living Wage’, which means the tip is built into the price of the food, I didn’t leave an additional tip, and the people went ballistic. So, I like the idea of saying that I’ll leave cash, but then only leave a few bucks, if that.
But in the end, I’m, mostly eat out these days where tips are expected or are small, which is Europe and Asia. The US sit-down restaurants can shove it with their entitlement attitude.
Trip down memory lane for me. My department had some goal, and then it got changed right before the end of he quarter, and we missed the goal. Cost everyone on our team several hundred bucks. (pretty good dough in the mid 80s).
Accomplished work on our team went down to about 0 for the next week. Some HR person was brought in for a team meeting to quell the insurrection. We all sat in the room and no worker said or asked anything. Just made HR and the leadership very uncomfortable. After a half hour, they just said. Ok, meeting over. I guess that was fun.
When I worked at First Data in Omaha, they called it mowing the grass.
Yeah, I’m not fond of the entitled-to-tips attitude either. If some waiter gave me a hard time about the tip, I’d probably take the time to explain politely to the restaurant owner exactly why I was never going to eat there again and what I was going to tell people about that restaurant.
In any case, dining out is getting to be a seldom thing for us, for a variety of reasons.
Correct. If you do get rid of the poor performers, it actually improves morale.
Yep, I did warn people that they have to tip if they eat there, or they’ll be screamed at by staff.
I guess at least they didn’t call it weeding the lawn?
“growth exceeding revenue” sounds like an unsound business plan, since more growth means even less revenue ...
LOL! If there are any FDR managers on here, it may change!!
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I've been having a hell of a time coming up with a performance improvement plan for myself. The only thing I've been able to come up with so far is to not drink beer while working.
I was in a similar situation. It was called TQM, Total Quality Management.
My supervisor was of a similar mind as I, and when I complained he said “just play the game, just play the game.”
We went through a similar period at my work place.
The executives had a given budget for raises and had to justify the raises employees got in there performance reviews.
What happened is that favored employees got good raises and everyone else got minimums.
So, if your supervisor didn’t like you for being outspoken but you were a good performer you still got a poor review rating.
No appeal process of course. Put up with it or find a new job.
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