Late 1980s joke: "How many people work at DEC?" "About a quarter of them." Pay increases were a percentage of each group's payroll. Several groups had CTs (co

Late 1980s joke: "How many people work at DEC?" "About a quarter of them." Pay increases were a percentage of each group's payroll. Several groups had CTs (corporate turkeys). These were highly compensated people with a dotted line relationship to Dr. Bell's No Output Division. The deal was, they could work on NOD projects to their hearts' content, but they should not expect raises. That allowed the raise budget to be spent on the other folks. For a while they had a policy that poor performers had their performance reviews delayed. This meant that you couldn't tell if it was you yourself who was incompetent, or your manager. (Incompetent managers often were late doing performance reviews for their people.) Now all that's left is the Digital Credit Union. It's sad; they had many great people and some great products.