{"id":179365,"date":"2018-03-05T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/05\/and-once-again-united-airlines-says-here-hold-my-beer\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T00:30:00","slug":"and-once-again-united-airlines-says-here-hold-my-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/05\/and-once-again-united-airlines-says-here-hold-my-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"And, Once Again, United Airlines Says, &#8220;Here, Hold My Beer.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of poor management decisions, UAL&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/work.qz.com\/1221113\/united-airlines-is-giving-employees-a-lottery-instead-of-bonuses\/\">replace a performance based bonus program with a lottery<\/a> takes the cake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Employees of United Airlines used to get quarterly bonuses if they hit certain performance targets. Now, they\u2019ll all be entered into a lottery, out of which one\u2014and only one\u2014lucky person will win $100,000. <\/p>\n<p>United president Scott Kirby broke the news in a memo on March 2, calling the change \u201can exciting new rewards program.\u201d He noted that, in addition to the $100,000 award, quarterly prizes would also include luxury vacations, smaller cash awards, and Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedans. Instead of getting individual bonuses each quarter, workers who achieve their performance goals will be all entered into the drawing, from which winners will be chosen at random. <\/p>\n<p>The change is not sitting well with employees themselves. \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, the employees aren&#8217;t enthused at getting f%$#ed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theacsi.org\/news-and-resources\/press-releases\/press-2017\/press-release-travel-2017\">the worst airline in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think that United will be enjoying its time in the cellar.<\/p>\n<p>This is the very apotheosis of American management culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of poor management decisions, UAL&#8217;s decision to replace a performance based bonus program with a lottery takes the cake: Employees of United Airlines used to get quarterly bonuses if they hit certain performance targets. Now, they\u2019ll all be entered into a lottery, out of which one\u2014and only one\u2014lucky person will win $100,000. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,365,450,364,588,403],"class_list":["post-179365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-business","tag-employment","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}