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The inside story of a failed Google acquisition, and a hospitalized employee
- johan_larson 10y agoWhy are people with poor performance reviews barred from transferring? You'd think it would be encouraged; someone who struggles in one team may thrive in another.
- skj 10y agoBecause that would result in poor performers simply getting passed around ad infinitum. There are companies where this is the de facto policy, and it's pretty bad for all involved.
- johan_larson 10y agoSure, but if that's the intent, it would be better to set a limit on the number of successive poor performance reviews someone is allowed. Two? Three, maybe? People underperform for all sorts of reasons, and one of them is a skills mismatch. The fix for that is to find a team where the worker's skillset fits better. And a blanket ban on transfers prohibits this solution.
- sjg007 10y agoIt misses the point that the manager can be the reason.
- anaganisk 10y agoI always fail to understand why silicon Valley is hell bent on AI for everything, replacing dangerous jobs with machines is good but why everything else? Are everyone supposed to be an engineer at Silicon Valley? I mean if all jobs are replaced by machines, how would someone earn to buy or use Silicon valley's "products". Prices are going up not down
- tdb7893 10y agoWhat prices are going up because of AI? Prices seem to be mainly going up in places where AI has no effect (real estate, education, and medical expenses seem to be the big ones)
- DrScump 10y ago"For Joe and the rest of the flight-test crew, that meant 10- to 12-hour days outdoors flying the drones, sometimes in freezing temperatures or while standing in fields of two-inch-deep mud and cow excrement or, at other times, dealing with the Central Valley's infamous 100-plus-degree heat." I don't understand why takeoff aerodynamics under these extremes (and more extreme, uh, extremes) couldn't have been simulated in a wind tunnel. Also, couldn't simple ageism have been a factor as well?
- TempleOS 10y agoI have a space alien. Frasier is like a westworld robot that ignores any reality it was not programmewd for. Can you imagine a westworld robot that juts kind short circuits awkwardly. I have been living for ten years with Frasier who simple has a few circuits fried. He doesn't know what a random number is. I cannot deal with a chimpanzee. I quit talking to the chimpanzee. Obviously you cannot explain anything to a fucken stupid chimpanzee.