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[later] I’m pleased to report we’re now identifying and replacing hundreds of outdated metrics per hour.

  • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s even better when these metrics explicitly become your yearly goals. Or department-wide metrics you have very little influence over. I sure hope all these people I don’t manage happen to achieve a specific error rate this year so I get a good bonus.

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      8 months ago

      God this is too real. One place I worked loved to pick odd company wide metrics too. Instead of just like “profit”, 50% of our bonus would be determined by how low a % held stock was against revenue, globally… I worked in marketing. Needless to say the “bonus” did not motivate anyone.

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      8 months ago

      What’s even better is when your metrics are based on last year’s metrics so you better achieve exponential growth or start looking for another job.

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        8 months ago

        The year before last we achieved 1% test error rate in an area, and the bosses were seriously considering having the following year’s goal be 0%. Someone had to point out that if anyone had 1 error on Jan 1, we literally couldn’t do anything to achieve the goal the rest of the year and may as well give up entirely.