Re:Amazon Pip Horror Story
by aspenmayer on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:12PM
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Why stop at C suite? Stack rank the board of directors too for good measure, and do it by shareholder vote of confidence.
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Stack rank the board of directors too for good measure
The only time stack ranking was a force for good was when the French applied it to their ruling elite in the 1790s.
I guess this was meant as a joke, but you may want to read about the reign of Terror and how it led people from all social classes to rat each other out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
See also how people had to get a "certificate of civism" lest them be considered suspect by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_civism