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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by im3w1l on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:18PM (#26848959)
This is the curse of 95% reliability. People will rely on it even though they shouldn't. It's better if it's only like 66% reliable.
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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by praptak on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:52AM (#26850655)
We know how to deal with this in the technical domain - we break things on purpose in a controlled way so that people don't rely on an SLO that is there by mere chance.

Maybe companies should do "bonus tolerance breaks" for the same purpose.

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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:16PM (#26855405)
The right way implement this is to tie a sizable chunk of the quarterly bonus to an ambitious company-wide goal that fails 30% of the time. If the company is hitting the bonusable goal 95% of the time, the bar is probably too low.
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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by emodendroket on Sunday April 18, 2021 @11:47AM (#26853453)
Considering typical turnover that's not possible unless you pay out the bonuses on a much more frequent than annual schedule.
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Re:Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit by im3w1l on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:09PM (#26853656)
He said they were quarterly.
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