>>When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead
Depends on how you define "hard work." In most real companies, the people who work "hard" by putting in the most hours will certainly get bonus money but they are also guaranteed bonus work to do. I have heard many complaints from my long-suffering IT colleagues who never have enough team members to get the job done and are always calling their spouses because they'll be home late.
Is that moving ahead? I don't know. Ask their families, or ask their doctors.
On the other hand, those who work "hard" by thinking a lot about business processes, information analysis, customer psychology, and management indecision and incompetence, and who focus on making their own work as efficient as possible, and absolutely do not work the extra hours expected of everyone -- well those "hard" workers might get a financial bonus, but usually do not get bonus work because mgmt doesn't have a high opinion or high visibility of them.
Who's really ahead?
The problem with these databases is not that they have too much information, but rather that they have far too little. We need some way to populate these data stores with vital info about Groucho Marx, Karl Marx, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, George Bush, Martin Luther, Wiliam the Conqueror, etc. Instead of stealing information, hackers and virus writers should be injecting information by the gigabyte. Perhaps the best way to protect our privacy is to surround it with mountains of nonsense.
Plus, I own stock in a couple storage companies, so the more data there is (real or fictional), the more hardware my companies sell...
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>>When the annual review comes up the people that take pride or work hard will move ahead Depends on how you define "hard work." In most real companies, the people who work "hard" by putting in the most hours will certainly get bonus money but they are also guaranteed bonus work to do. I have heard many complaints from my long-suffering IT colleagues who never have enough team members to get the job done and are always calling their spouses because they'll be home late. Is that moving ahead? I don't know. Ask their families, or ask their doctors. On the other hand, those who work "hard" by thinking a lot about business processes, information analysis, customer psychology, and management indecision and incompetence, and who focus on making their own work as efficient as possible, and absolutely do not work the extra hours expected of everyone -- well those "hard" workers might get a financial bonus, but usually do not get bonus work because mgmt doesn't have a high opinion or high visibility of them. Who's really ahead?
The problem with these databases is not that they have too much information, but rather that they have far too little. We need some way to populate these data stores with vital info about Groucho Marx, Karl Marx, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, George Bush, Martin Luther, Wiliam the Conqueror, etc. Instead of stealing information, hackers and virus writers should be injecting information by the gigabyte. Perhaps the best way to protect our privacy is to surround it with mountains of nonsense. Plus, I own stock in a couple storage companies, so the more data there is (real or fictional), the more hardware my companies sell ...
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