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Meh.. you're still at the mercy of whoever your boss happens to be. They just need to put a little effort into framing the metrics the right way or to make sure
by decebalus1 7y ago
Meh.. you're still at the mercy of whoever your boss happens to be. They just need to put a little effort into framing the metrics the right way or to make sure you're getting work that doesn't touch on the right metrics. The idea that performance metrics are fair is just corporate propaganda designed to make you have the incentive to improve them, thus being easier to control and replace.
- allset_ 7y ago>or to make sure you're getting work that doesn't touch on the right metrics. What? The metrics should be distilled from the overall company/org/team goals and mission and if you're working on things that don't align with those of course you're not going to have a good performance review.
- gravitas 7y agoThink more subtly - if you need to meet a metric/goal of 50% of your time on phone calls and 50% on tickets, a manager who wants to tank your metrics will game the system to feed you less than needed to make your metric on one or the other. Just because a metric exists does not mean it's applied fairly or evenly to all employees.
- endtime 7y agoI said "relatively". Of course having a bad relationship with my boss would be bad for my career, no question.