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I'm a bit on the spectrum and I absolutely love having my performance distilled down to a set of metrics. It clearly communicates to me which types of actions

I'm a bit on the spectrum and I absolutely love having my performance distilled down to a set of metrics. It clearly communicates to me which types of actions are valued in a way that I will often miss from normal social interactions due to my blindness to social queues. The way I perceive work is very helpful in this regard. To me, the purpose of work is to maximize my income/lifestyle while not dipping below a lower bound threshold of misery. I don't seek personal or emotional fulfillment from work at all. I did that when I was younger and, for me, it was a bad way to approach life. This way I'm much happier and my focus/attention is more on the kinds of things I hope will wind up in my obit: family, relationships, charity, etc. I wonder if sales people ever write articles about how they're at the "mercy" of their sales metrics. The idea of it seems hilarious.

VRay 7y ago
It's all well and good until you get judged by a bunch of completely borked-up, unfair metrics. The computer sets you to running halfway across a gigantic warehouse again and again, then measures your "picks per hour" vs somebody who consistently ends up in a tiny corner of the warehouse. Your manager agrees that it's not a problem and tells you not to worry, then a few months down the line some algorithm decides to give your lucky coworker a big raise and you don't get a boost at all. Thankfully I haven't had to deal with any metrics like this for more than a couple of months at a time.. Since engineers' specialty is to optimize ratings, it's an obvious-enough waste of time to apply them that they're usually short-lived.