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RE: RE: Exploitation is a two-way street (was a bunch of other th read s)
Subject:RE: RE: Exploitation is a two-way street (was a bunch of other th read s) From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 May 2003 09:31:35 -0400
>BTW, just to add to my previous post, I don't think it's
>proper for a manager to "ding" an employee who works the
>minimum and does just enough to satisfy job requirements
>and performance objectives. If they work the required hours
>and do the required work, they've done their job and earned
>their salary.
>It's when eval, incentive and promotion times
>roll around and they find they get nothing extra for doing
>nothing extra that their chickens come home to roost (not
>to mention when it inevitably comes time to rank your people
>and pick the ones at the bottom of the list for layoffs).
That IS a ding. The person was singled out to receive less than someone else
because of something they did or did not do. I can make that definition
because I was the one who introduced the term into the thread. :-)
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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