Interesting Links for 06-04-2021

[andrewducker]

Russian Lord Of The Rings TV Adaptation Surfaces On YouTube After 30 Years

(tags:russia lotr )

Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less than 1 Percent - President Biden has a plan to fix that

(tags:tax usa netflix )

Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate in first major address

(tags:tax usa )

Yoda was Flanderized

(tags:StarWars language )

Academic blog pointing out that Scotland could be a little normal independent nation deleted, as it was "not the view of the Government"

(tags:censorship Scotland independence UK government )

Thandiwe Newton reverts to original spelling of first name (from Thandie)

(tags:names movies actors )

Was your data in the massive Facebook breach?

(tags:Facebook data hacking )

A Covid-contaminated surface has under 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection

(tags:Pandemic infection GoodNews )

Transphobia was always going to end up as crude, old-fashioned homophobia

(tags:LGBT transgender parenting )

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

(tags:email data hacking )

Why ranking employees by performance backfires

(tags:work organisation epicfail viaPatrickHadfield )

Comments

Why ranking employees by performance backfires

[jack]

I feel like for once the headline could have been more dramatic and been more correct. I mean, I think the problem is not so much "accurately evaluating performance backfires" as "mandating that half of the workforce are told they're failing and will eventually be fired guarantees that you never have a workforce who are all doing well and pulling together". Although I feel like that should have been more obvious in advance :(

Re: Why ranking employees by performance backfires

[andrewducker]

Ranking and evaluating aren't the same though.

You can be good at your job and ranked at the bottom. That's the problem.

Re: Why ranking employees by performance backfires

[dewline]

That's the problem that has been arranged into existence by instituting these procedures, definitely.

Re: Why ranking employees by performance backfires

[rmc28]

Ideally as a manager you want a team where everybody is meeting expectations or exceeding them, and being forced to declare some people underperforming is so clearly counterproductive to me!

"The idea is to avoid “grade inflation” and force managers to have honest conversations with people who are sub-par." Like yes, not having those awkward conversations is a management failure. But I don't think stacked ranking with an imposed percentage of "who must be bad" is a solution to that problem!

[cmcmck]

Please, everyone, READ the transphobia item.

It's bang on the mark as I have good reasons for knowing.

[dewline]

Done. Prevention of my own backsliding into Stupid Cruelties is an ongoing task.

[cmcmck]

I can't imagine you being so gross!

Blog post deletion

[alithea]

Yet more evidence that the Government only care about academic freedom of speech when it's people peddling ideas they approve of, I see.

Re: Blog post deletion

[andrewducker]

Thankfully the internet remembers!

Re: Blog post deletion

[dewline]

And when it's a view that is (a) toxic to good social order and (b) approved of by that Government...that poses other dangers. I'm seeing things going on in Québec right now, worrying things...pro-bigotry things...

Yellen's Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Someone once said to me that there is already a an internationally agreed upon minimum corporation tax rate and it was zero per cent.

Need to have a bit of a think about tax incidence before going to far down the road of standardising a corporation tax rate.

[anna_wing]

(a)Countries have their own economic arrangements, including their rates of tax. A country that is solvent and well-run, or has a sovereign wealth fund, or 90% of the natural gas on the planet, is not in the same position in respect of its need to tax its population as, say, the US.

(b) One way to deal with the ranking nonsense would be to maintain a cadre of people hired simply to be the ones at the bottom.