Most companies, even in our backyard, pay a bonus tied to weird corporate objectives. One kind is tied to company-wide objectives like revenue or profitability, the idea being that the whole company bands together to achieve these goals. The problem is that in reality no individual employee has the kind of impact to make or break these goals. So their compensation, which they will focus on a lot, is not tied to their job. It’s essentially random. Another problem is that you might have done a great job, but those idiots over in that other department didn’t do theirs and now nobody gets their
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