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[โ€“] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week 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.

[โ€“] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Genius! I hope you did well there ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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