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I worked at a place in the late 2000s that did stack ranking. Our manager decided to give the entire department a low rating while coordinating with other managers to work the budget around. I only found out because I was buddies with the Unix team manager. I let the rest know what happened and a few months later when the annual "grade the manager" survey came around we desecrated him. One of them wrote up a three page summary on how he throws the department under the bus, bad decisions, etc. He was massively pissed and had a meeting to just bitch us out. Side note, the CEO must have been impressed with our assessments of the fucker because he was made a director a couple of years later.

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Fucking participation trophy generation. Everyone has room for improvement. It's about maximizing productivity not protecting ur butt from being hurt...

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That's not how rack and stack works. It's targeted at forcing a standard distribution of employee evals so the bottom 5-20% can be put on PIPs or fired. The "logic" being that the quality of all teams are comparable, that this wont create perverse incentives to hire sacrificial lambs, that you can onboard replacements fast enough to outpace the churn this causes, that it wont create perverse incentives to sabotage colleagues, that the rankings are objective, and that this works in any industry.

It does work in some niche industries (e.g. professional sports), but it's a complete dumpsterfire in most industries.

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the bottom 5-20% should be fired. The argument sounds like a fat person proclaiming they're an olympic runner and they deserve a trophy too even though they didn't finish the marathon

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If a manager is competent, they're going to build a high performing team where their "worst" employee would be above average on a more typical team. This creates a perverse incentive for employees to move to the most inept team possible to insure they're racked well.

For truly mediocre teams where you do have people who're actually bad...yeah they do need fired.