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Winding up with "a bunch of antagonistic employees" sounds like a management problem, not evidence that lazy, worker-hostile policies are justified.

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There are some employees that will never be satisfied no matter what management does - it's never enough, they always want more say, any amount of compensation for executives is "too much".

I say, great! Sounds like you could do it better, so please go for it.

Do you have strong opinions on national policy? I see.

And are you currently running for national office?

Hmm.

this is a bizarre straw man to stand up in response to GP, especially given the context of the post we're discussing.

in my experience, the framing and rhetorical style that you're using is often used to make excuses or apologies for business practices that diminish the power employees have in the workplace.

we'e not talking about some nebulous "they" that "always wants more", we're talking about the specific case of Blizzard utilizing stack ranking and then firing a manager who is unwilling to be opaque about the capricious evaluation they are being asked to do to their direct reports.

You could just as easily apply your statement to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

Their response: Yes, we did it and we did it better than everyone else including the crooks.

There are a lot of activist investors out there. Even Musk is being targeted because of his absent leadership at Tesla.

"My company kills employees that they don't like — actually shoots them and puts the corpses in a dumpster."

"Well, start your own company and don't kill people if you don't think it's right."

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