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What's the definition of low performer?

• socialismisok 4y ago
  "someone you don't want around anymore"
• baq 4y ago
  The chief people officer and a couple interns who prepared the list know… so it’ll be something like ‘didn’t get a bonus for X years’
• aldebran 4y ago
  People with “Insufficient results” also known in other places as PIP
• bergenty 4y ago
  People that don’t work
  • bugbuddy 4y ago
    Methinks this is a bit too harsh for Hacker News.
    • tsol 4y ago
      If everyone worked all day, this place would be deserted.
  • gw99 4y ago
    So the windows team?
• ionwake 4y ago
  Reminds me of a glorious post on HN where someone happily blogged about how he wrote some code to tell him who to fire, the answer was him, which meant the code wasn’t quite right. So he picked some people instead. I live for those posts.
  • intunderflow 4y ago
    Please say you still have a link to this post
    • ionwake 4y ago
      Check my comments from about a year ago
      • sokoloff 4y ago
        Seems like this comment and this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713859 https://danlebrero.com/2020/12/02/cto-diary-downsizing-team-firing/ https://danlebrero.com/2020/12/02/cto-diary-downsizing-team-...
        • nicolewhite 4y ago
          I don't see where it ever says the program told him to fire himself
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          • james-skemp 4y ago
            Second bullet point under The Result.
            • ionwake 4y ago
              Wtf didn’t expect anyone to be sleuthing well glad to be of help , the above was my take anyway
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