My current job is near infinitely worse as soon as people started talking about KPIs.
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I know a company that insituted a test-coverage statistic for their software department and one enterprising team just created empty tests that always pass.
Start test of Feature 1
TODO: place test here
End test
😂😂😂😂
I love that kind of thinking.
But it's such a waste of time?
Nah, they all got bonuses and it took years for anyone to notice because the people reading the stats didn't read the code.
Lol!
Ah the ever-changing, vaguely-defined, hurriedly thrown together, pulled-out-of-the-ass, KPIs. Always a great cathartic IdEa, but an increasingly useless and meaningless tool in practice.
My job instituted a goal-setting program this year. It's not bad, but I also wonder if it just gives managers and HR folks something to do.
Oh? You hit your KPI quota. Here's a raise.
Instead of getting to know people and taking the time to understand what a person does and how well they do it.
It's "efficient." 🙄
This is what caused large numbers of highly qualified and competent people who loved the job they did to leave their careers in education and the civil service, creating a vacuum filled by incompetent NPC fucks.
Yup. And it's only getting worse since we have too many MBAs running stuff now.
I've heard this term before. Fortunately for me corpspeak is beyond my comprehension.