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  • They may have moved on from the structure they had ~10 years ago but there was documentation and interviews about that internal structure. yes it worked similar to that, there where tasks to be done but employees could largely choose whatever they want to work on, there where no formal managers but plenty de facto managers, there was base pay scales but most of the pay was bonuses, that where indeed based on the reviews of your coworkers based on how much work/value you appeared to make for the company. Because valve is private is why it had such a unique structure. Alot of former employees spoke about how that pay structure killed alot of projects and deincetivised maintenance tasks. Then because there was no formal management, if you wanted to work on larger projects you had to convince coworkers to work with you there was no assigned teams or bosses, and if your project took longer then the year, it would be likely there would be no fruit of your labor and you would likely be rated lower, i.e. less pay. Of course no formal bosses does not mean there was not cliques employees that had been there longer and/or had more influence with more coworkers had more power to form teams and trusted when working longer projects, also employees would connect with coworkers so that the work they did would be noticed. Who completed your employee review would be basically random, so you had to hope/ensure everyone knew what you where doing.

    Obviously there are alot of issues with this, I hope they have since moved on but last I heard there wasn’t much traction to change it. There is no board to appease and Gabe is the one who made the system, change is difficult for valve.














  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBurritrule
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    15 days ago

    My mom was a sweet crazy lady. And crazy found her, she has seen some crazy stuff and been in crazy situations She had sound logic but intresting perspecrives and ways of doing thing she made psychologists need therapy, renewed peoples hope in the world, and had the drug dealers and makers in her area scared to mess with her all in one smart, crazy broken beyond repair package


  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBurritrule
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    15 days ago

    She really did and itd be hilarious, “wait why do you have this” “Oh I got that on sale, I don’t plan on using it but it’ll last through an apocalypse, realistically I wont live, but someone scavenging my hosue they can find it and use it. Like a suprise treasure trove”

    me and my sister always just “okay…” yes she was a bit of a hoarder but not all of it was for her, also always kept water, blankets, mittens and some other stuff during the winter to hand out to anyone who seemed cold. Sweet, crazy, crazy soul. Loved, respected and feared in about equal measure by all that knew her.

    so if you want, think of the post apocalypse scavengers, leave some things that’ll survive an apocalypse that’ll be handy for a scavenger, you’ll make thier day.