Today we have our department quarterly update.\u00a0 The director flew in town to give us overview of how the department is doing.\u00a0 My project is the only project in the department, so it has very high profile and no room to fail.\u00a0 Thanks to the stupid decision of close down two design centers in Canada, lay off many experienced engineers and outsource the work to India, the project is quite behind schedule.\u00a0 Now the management finally wake up and realize the problem, they are all scrambling and try all means to pull the schedule in.\u00a0 They try to add more resource in India, but they simply could not find any qualified engineer.<\/p>\n
They try to hire back ex-employees from the closed design center as contractors.\u00a0 It is pretty much admitting last year’s decision to close down the site is stupid.\u00a0 One desperate measure to they try is by making us work hard and longer hours.\u00a0 This idea won’t work if they use the stick because it would only demotivate us and further lower our productivity.\u00a0 They try to use carots and lure us to work overtime.\u00a0 The director said if the project is finish on time, the whole team will have a special bonus as incentive.<\/p>\n
This idea sounds great, the only question is how much is the bonus.\u00a0 The director did not give us any number or percentage, so the incentive won’t work.\u00a0 No one would work harder if they don’t know roughtly how much we will get in return.\u00a0 After the meeting, some of us did a rought calculation, we all agree that the bonus has to be at least $10k to be attractive.\u00a0 Judging from previous record of the company, the so call special incentive bonus could be merely a few thousand dollars, which won’t worth working your ass off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"