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1. throwa+m8[view] [source] 2015-08-06 15:37:23
>>kisna7+(OP)
Each quarter Yahoo employees are rated and placed into one of five categories: misses, occasionally misses, achieves, exceeds, greatly exceeds:

http://pastebin.com/KEQjYynr

A number of my boss's reports had landed in the achieves category for all of 2014, but nonetheless received a communication from HR this past April that they were in the bottom 5% of the company for 2014 and at risk for termination if their performance did not improve. This surprised my boss and the reports.

Obviously if you're in the bottom 5% you're well below average. The question is how you can consistently be ranked in the middle category yet nonetheless be in the bottom 5%. That would seem to make the quarterly ratings a rather pointless exercise for communicating to employees what their ongoing performance is.

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2. michae+5e[view] [source] 2015-08-06 16:22:39
>>throwa+m8
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3. dang+IB[view] [source] 2015-08-06 20:00:28
>>michae+5e
We've banned this account. Calling Marissa Mayer a cunt is an egregious violation of the civility that HN requires. (Using an archaic spelling doesn't change that, it just makes it weird.) No one gets to do this here.

I told you just three days ago that if you wouldn't or couldn't stop doing this, I would ban your account [1]. This comes after more warnings, reminders, cajolings, and please-dont's than anyone has received in the history of HN by a long shot. It's painfully evident that you won't or can't stop, and it's time we applied the rules equally.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994684

Edit: the parent comment was killed by user flags. We didn't delete it or moderate it.

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4. _ondq+K24[view] [source] 2015-08-10 01:14:36
>>dang+IB
Good job dang. You continue to make HN more of an echo chamber.
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