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> I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But
by Raphmedia 7y ago
> I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?
Wait, I don't understand.
Why would anyone call you hero?
Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers and that by stealing them you stopped this from happening?
Free drinks and free food is the standard here to reward teams when they spend extra unpaid time away from their families.
All of the posts asking the same question are being down voted. Am I missing something?
You said you were a contractor at the time. Unless you were on the management team I fail to see how this was your responsibility to choose what happened.
- teddyh 7y ago> Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
- Raphmedia 7y agoYes, the cobra effect exists. Should this mean that everyone needs to stop all forms of positive reinforcement? I don't believe so. I doubt anyone would risk a comfortable job at Twitter against a few bottles of beers. Even if they are really fancy, that's what... $20-50? If this had been worded as a "Haha, I stole the bad team's beer" I would have laughed. However, worded as "where is my reward for being smart and stopping the cobra effect?" that's just an humble brag and plain unfunny.
- danielparks 7y agoHe’s joking.
- LeoPanthera 7y ago> Am I missing something? That it is a joke.
- Raphmedia 7y agoThe humor must be lost in translation then, I don't see anything resembling a joke.