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Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by scarface_74 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:08AM (#37963999)
It’s not a secret. They tell you your on “focus”.

Let me take that back. I knew I was on focus. But thought I was off since I had met all of the criteria and my manager went on radio silence for a month.

I mostly worked with project managers and customers (consulting division) day to day. That’s when my manager was finding things to use against me.

Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by oldbbsnickname on Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:26AM (#37964066)
Radio silence is generally ambiguous: either you're doing really well or really badly. xD

Meta is obsessed with "impact", a illusion of precisely-quantifiable innovation and productivity setting up perverse KPIs to never refactor, never invest in employee career development (because "the year of efficiency" and "we're moving to fast"), and never bother with anything other than looking good. And everything diff has to be reviewed by someone on your team, but if your team doesn't include actually seasoned coders, they're going to nit pick because they don't understand the programming language and take their time, slowing you down.

Re:Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talke... by scarface_74 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:01AM (#37964238)
so my success criteria in ProSerbe and metrics were simple - stay 80% billable, keep the customer happy and make sure my projects were done on time, on budget and met requirements.

No matter how hard my manager tries, they couldn’t get me on those metrics. Mind you that my manager is not involved in my day to day work. I worked witg project managers and other consultants.

My previous manager had left and my new manager went hard on me from day one. I had ever had any previous interaction with them. They couldn’t even find anyone to give me bad feedback internally or the customers during the focus periods.

The only thing the manager could do was try to keep adding more work on me until I refused or failed.