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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Avshalom on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:28PM (#16190473)
>>compensation should be based purely on your individual skills

First: Profit seeking organizations don't care about skill they care: about wait for it... profit which is the money you add vs the money you cost, which may be completely divorced from skill.

Second: Literally nobody can accurately measure a specific individuals contribution, through skill or otherwise.

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Karunamon on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:47PM (#16190656)
Well... you can try, to varying degrees of success. Commits, tickets, MTTR, sLOC. Not that any of those things can't be gamed if the culture demands it
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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by Avshalom on Friday January 19, 2018 @05:53PM (#16190692)
%s/can't/won't/
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