> The platform will never forget, there will be no second chances. Or worse. This reminded me of this recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176

> The platform will never forget, there will be no second chances. Or worse. This reminded me of this recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694032 The paragraph in question: > After an agent had been terminated, their punishment points would decay over time until such a time they reached zero (or another configurable threshold depending on how desperate the company was for warm bodies), at which time they would be sent an e-mail to their personal e-mail (which was collected during the application process), inviting them to “re-apply”. Being an early telephony company we also would send them a robo-call with the “good news”. This process was known as a “life-cycle” and it was common in certain labor markets for employees to have many such lifecycles. Seriously, give it a read and cry, if you haven't...