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Microsoft is also said to have imported Meta’s policy of blacklisting departed employees it doesn’t want back. In Microsoft’s case, BI said, the two-year bar applies only to people let go for underperformance. Microsoft also changing its bonus rewards system by increasing the rewards granted to workers producing the most results over periods of three or four years, rather than just one or two.

Microsoft’s actions follow similar moves by Meta, Google, and Amazon, which all recently introduced incentives for workers to produce at the highest levels they can—while regularly firing employees considered to be lagging.

Intel did this a number of years back under BK and it didn’t go so great. Many great employees left and never came back because of the punitive nature. An employee might not be a great fit for one group – but does that warrant black-balling an employee for ALL positions? It seems like a failure of management and hiring to me.

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https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/microsoft-follows-competitors-amazon-meta-and-google-in-employee-productivity-crackdown/91186637

I was reading some fun stuff about the mysterious urban-legend arcade game Polybius. As part of the reading, I got curious if the mind control or brainwashing claimed was actually possible.

During some simple searching, I ran across this interesting video that claims getting information from people is very possible – but not via Hollywood brain wave machines and magical drugs.

Great little mini-documentary on creation of one of the first 3D adventure games: Alone in the Dark.

You can also watch the original GDC talk by Frederick Raynal

Movie theater popcorn can often have over a 1000% markup compared to how much it actually costs the theater to buy and produce. While that might sound excessive, bottled water is often marked up over 4,000%

In an effort to help people come back to theaters, Cinemark ran a promotion in which they would fill any popcorn container you wanted to bring for $5. People responded!

Before survival horror became a thing, at the same time as Alone in the Dark, Doctor Hauzer existed on the 3DO. A fully 3D horror game published in 1994.