So, will the crap stack ranking go away with his departure? Or will it remain as a nasty legacy?
Microsoft COO jumps ship
Kevin Turner has ended his 11-year stint as chief operating officer for Microsoft and is moving to become CEO of financial firm Citadel Securities. Turner was one of the most reviled senior managers at Redmond and his departure has been expected for some time. He was hired by Steve Ballmer from Walmart, where he spent 20 years …
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Thursday 7th July 2016 19:36 GMT bombastic bob
employees ranking one another
"what made Turner such a hated figure at Microsoft was his introduction of score carding – a system he brought over from Walmart where employees rank each other on their output. Since this is tied directly to bonuses, it led to a poisonous political atmosphere in the company and is cited by many as the worst thing about working for the software giant."
too bad they didn't have CUSTOMERS rank them... that might actually make *SENSE*.
[then people like ME, who *HATE* Win-10-nic and Windows "Ape" (8.x), can give them all a 5 'stinky diapers' rating, as deserved]
but yeah, the internal politics of employees 'ranking' one another, well, RANKS.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
