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Re:Amazon’s HR Failures by slownews45 on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:32PM (#27552109)
I thought the military also used a variant of this - interesting that is "such a strange concept".
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Re:Amazon’s HR Failures by MaysonL on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:19PM (#27552630)
Yes, see [0].

They also seem to be about to change this [1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out#Military

[1]https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/24/up-or-ou...

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Re:Amazon’s HR Failures by matt_s on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:37PM (#27552161)
How so? The military doesn't fire people that I know of.
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Re:Amazon’s HR Failures by slownews45 on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:03PM (#27552455)
The 1980 Defense Officer Personnel Management Act mandates that officers passed over twice for promotion are required to be discharged from the military.

So yes, if you are not promoted, you don't get to stay - you are actually fired.

They have modified this for some positions like flight instructors who they want to keep. But in general it's up or out in military - that means fired before you get your pension.

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