On: A change of heart regarding employee metrics

[marcinzm]

My cynical view is that's it's to find scapegoats especially in companies that have a lot of politics or a lot of PIPs.

You generally scapegoat one level down and then let that level push it further down if it can.

So the Directors need team level metrics to find which managers reporting to them to scapegoat and have data to "prove" it.

Then the Managers need individual level metrics to find which engineers to scapegoat and have data to "prove" it.

[hinkley → marcinzm]

Yo dawg, I heard you like throwing people under buses. So I put a bus under yo’ bus so you can scapegoat people while you scapegoate people.