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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is the bonus season with my employer with a bonus pool of 500K for a group of ten SWEs.  They will NOT give out a 50K bonus per employee.  There is a ranking system and some will get 100K and some will get 20K.  I am being compared with others in my group and everyone can't have the same exceptional performance.  It is like a tennis tournament where there is only one winner at the end, then a runner up, semi-finalist, and so on.  That's how college should be grading students.  Not everyone is a winner.[/quote]

Why though?  Should the process of being educated be more about competition than mastery?  Because you have the kind of job that rewards competition?

If so, that suggests an interesting strategy for excellent students:  Instead of seeking out equally excellent peers, novel experiences  and difficult challenges, they should go where they will most surely win accolades and prizes. Why risk their gpa or class standing or whatever ranking and bonus system that people like PP value so highly.  Learning and accomplishments are apparently only to be valued if you’re publicly ranked superior to your supposed peers and get to buy more toys.  Is this what people like Felicity Huffman were thinking?

Values like this would have Brewster and Giamatti rolling in their graves.  But possibly not Schmidt, so, there’s that.

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