TJ Simers gets $14.5M from LA Times

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Simers was a known ass.
The late spnited would have been posting up and down this thread revealing what a king-sized dick this guy was.

 

Managers got a match, but only in Gannett stock
I told my financial adviser that and he said: “DAMN!”

 

If you don't take your vacation time you deserve a 2 for being a dumbass.

 

Youd think if they were going to plot poor reviews to keep raises down they wouldnt put an attendance question thats in no way subjective to protect the con....

But then they’re clearly imbeciles so

 

Did you ever pin him down on why he couldn't have given you a higher mark? I wonder if there were quotas, so to speak, in place that had to be hit for each graded category?

It has been known to happen, in many businesses, making it so supervisors are compelled to evaluate people to certain standards, with a breakdown of how many can receive top/exceeds standards ratings, and how many should be rated as solid/average, and a certain number that must be tabbed as needing improvement/below standards.

It's all about budgets and regulating raises, whether right or fair, or not.

 

In the absence of a contract that states otherwise, this is 100% legal.

 

I'm not a lawyer, but that's what I'd think, particularly in at-will states. A company actually can fire you for any reason, or no reason, and isn't actually obligated to give you anything, except maybe to allow for unemployment benefits.

If you did sue, or try to, you would be unlikely to win.

 

We both knew that it was a Gannett thing. He’s a good guy, who ended up being laid off from Gannett himself a couple of years before I was.

 

This is so wrong

 

The last place I worked had a 1-t0-5 scale on the evaluations. Broken record intro: "Nobody gets 5s. Grantland Rice and Jim Murray wouldn't get 5s."

They also would tell us that the average raises were 2 percent and it had to average out. So if you got 3 percent, somebody else only got 1 percent. I "almost" felt bad one time because I got 4 percent, meaning two people only got 1 percent.

The other thing they had was some sort of quartile system that, I think, was based on the pay you got when you were hired. I never understood it because, I think, the people explaining it didn't understand it either. Somebody determined that the only way to get a good pay boost was to quit and get hired back.

 

That was the big problem with the merit pay system
The kiss asses got hefty raises and the people who did the work got shit