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more from that month
You are 20 employees, and the supervisor gathers everyone at the beginning of the new month to have the "talk". Disgruntled the supervisor is trying to figure out why some individuals in this team of 20 are (according to him/her ) underperforming, acting furious about those that didn't deliver/produce similar numbers as the rest. After a while the supervisor clarifies: "You are 20 people here doing the same job, and half of you (10) produce below the average. This is unacceptable! I want (by next month) all 20 of you to produce above the average". (literally, that's what she said). This was when I started thinking of quitting (and it didn't take long before I did), as this is how all companies (public and private sector) operate in my neighborhood. Nepotism rules, those with connections will become supervisors to highly skilled and educated people, no matter if they are completely clueless and idiotic, making paradoxical claims from employees, defying logic and simple math. No, you can't break the rules of mathematics, not even if you are a supervisor.
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Agreed on mathematical science but mostly seen that supervisors talk in this fashion to push at least one or two more puppies to jump up to next level from total.
Yes, but there's also another thing I didn't emphasize here. Besides the fact that this supervisor ignores what the "average" stands for and that there will always be some people performing above the average and others below it, this was also the approach of the old corporate hierarchy that has failed to adapt to new conditions. Today, management doesn't work like that. Decision-making is participative in target setting today. This one didn't even mention targets but just the average production of each individual and didn't ever care to ask the employees to participate in the organization.