Comment Re:Boomers (Score 1) 346
If the person running the company (that is actually running it day to day) can't look out at their minions and know who delivers the goods and who doesn't then that person sucks. I certainly have seen many companies where a few blowhards have the ear of the boss but those companies often suck as well. But those few highly profitable highly productive companies that I have visited over the years ran a tight ship. I can certainly tell you that if someone walked into the bosses office and said, "I have 20 years here and deserve a bigger bonus than that new guy who ran profit circles around me." that there would be laughter. But in those sclerotic companies that are in death's waiting room (Sears like companies) seniority is everything. Where I would see seniority as a bonus is that a company should show some loyalty to those who have shown loyalty to it. So if a guy with 20 years royally screws up for the first time then he should be given another chance before some guy with two weeks in. But their pay should be the same if their performance is the same.