Theory Y here as well. 

I reward employees when the company does well and they’ve helped to get us 
here. 

> On Oct 29, 2020, at 9:46 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am theory Y all the way.  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2020, at 7:39 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> I’m probably out of date since my experience as a manager in corporate 
>> America is from about 1980-2000.  Back then pay was pretty much according to 
>> position, you qualified for a position requiring more skill or 
>> responsibility, you got a new title and a bigger paycheck.  The only gerbils 
>> that required constant food pellets to keep running in the wheel were the 
>> salespeople.  (Yes, there were merit reviews, but also something HR called 
>> “compa ratio” which applied negative feedback on raises if you were above 
>> midpoint for your grade, to the point where at 120% of midpoint you were 
>> capped out.)
>>  
>> Maybe today all the employees need constant food pellets.
>> 
>> I’ll bet there was a Dilbert strip about that, let me Google it.  Yep:
>> https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-25
>>  
>> I also seem to remember from the days of management flavor of the week there 
>> was Theory X and Theory Y.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
>>  
>>  
>> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:27 PM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT compensation
>>  
>> I’m in the process of doing something very similar here shortly.
>>  
>> Start pay a bit more for technical type positions so $18/hr and then up from 
>> there every few months with bonus for projects completed on time, or good 
>> customer facing reviews on work done etc.
>>  
>> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:16 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Chuck McCown <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [AFMUG] OT compensation
>>  
>> I am considering telling all new interviewees that we start at $15/hour but 
>> they can make more quickly according to this schedule.  And we also do COLA 
>> and Merit increases every 6 months.
>>  
>> Love to have feedback on this idea.
>>  
>> Please note my new email address: [email protected]
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