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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I worked under him. We gamed the system by doing a round robin of bad reviews with the understanding the next review will be a huge improvement.

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[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Genius! I hope you did well there 🙂

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, we did really well. It wasn't until Satya came on and after a few weeks he laid my entire department off.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

God that's just a slightly newer version of adding loops into Mainframe Cobol so you can increase performance when you needed to prove you were busy

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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Honestly it's sorta a known tactic in this industry. I got the idea from old coworkers at Intel. They do the same shit.

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