Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> But hasn't anyone here worked in a na environment where he or
> she had to pick up the work for a slacker who was being paid just as much
> (or more),a nd resented it? Didn't you think that person was in fact
> exploiting you? That is the experential basis of working class belief in
> productivity-based pay differentials. --jks
>
I think your example proves the opposite. Jan at the postoffice had an all-time record slacker as co-worker at the bulk mail center. _He_ got a special bonus for high productivity. Jan left the p.o. & the other co-worker bid on to another job, and the bulk mail center in Bloomington has been a disaster ever since.
The most incompetent people in any large organization are apt to be those who make the judgments as to the most and least productive. The only defense against this is an elimination of all merit pay and merit promotions. Lock step seniority and depend on the bell curve.
Carrol