How was your flight?

[MillCreek]

No thanks. Sounds to me like a lot of commie gobbledygook

You must not be familiar with the management style of Jack Welch.

[sumpnz]

You must not be familiar with the management style of Jack Welch.

Neutron Jack.

Thankfully my time at GE wasn't very long.  They were still dumping the bottom 10% each year though they ended that practice not long after I left.  It was a very destructive policy.  I can work to clear out deadwood for the first few years. But after that you start having to cut people that aren't THAT bad.  And then decent employees refuse to do anything that might help someone else avoid the cut, because otherwise they're more likely to be cut themselves.

[Hawkmoon]

Neutron Jack.

a.k.a. Black Jack.

[MechAg94]

Neutron Jack.

Thankfully my time at GE wasn't very long.  They were still dumping the bottom 10% each year though they ended that practice not long after I left.  It was a very destructive policy.  I can work to clear out deadwood for the first few years. But after that you start having to cut people that aren't THAT bad.  And then decent employees refuse to do anything that might help someone else avoid the cut, because otherwise they're more likely to be cut themselves.

I knew a guy who worked for Exxon.  He said they did a form of that.  Seemed a bit odd to me.  A competent manager who hires a decent team underneath him is still forced to fire or micro-manage some people each year.  Does he then start hiring people just for cannon fodder?  At some point, they should start looking at who they are hiring.

[Hawkmoon]

I knew a guy who worked for Exxon.  He said they did a form of that.  Seemed a bit odd to me.  A competent manager who hires a decent team underneath him is still forced to fire or micro-manage some people each year.  Does he then start hiring people just for cannon fodder?  At some point, they should start looking at who they are hiring.

That's where DEI rears its ugly head.

[zahc]

Does he then start hiring people just for cannon fodder? 

Of course they do. They do that even in organizations without a former stack ranking policy and I'm sure it's just worse in ones that do.