Sabre doesn't value it's employees in the same way because 95% of us can be replaced without consequence to the organization

We SIGNIFICANTLY exceeded the EPS and revenue goals set for 2018 and should have had VCP funding over 100%. However in the end of the year, Q3, they "adjusted" the guidance, then used that as the baseline for VCP. So it was only funded at 100% even though according to the VCP documentation it should have been maybe 120%. They say "it was distributed based on merit" but the fact of the matter is that the overall pool was not funded as committed.

So it is always a slap in the face to see money get thrown around like this. But at the same time, CEOs are not cheap. Sean gets other offers; other companies want to poach people where they can. Sabre has to pay him well to keep him. He has his shortcomings but so does every leader we can afford.

Sabre doesn't value it's employees in the same way because 95% of us can be replaced without consequence to the organization. Just how it is.

I feel bad for our customers who are really getting the short end of this. At least we can leave when we want; they are stuck with Sabre and would have hard costs to change.

Reposted this from @YPkvpiI-7xog . As sad as this is, it’s all very true

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Remember a couple of years back the touting of the new Ops command center for tracking stability under the "get helldee" plan in BLR? Yeah, you get what you pay for folks.

With a chance of an additional $24k annual stability bonus I would even consider applying for an ops job! There wouldn't be any outages on my watch! I'll live in that new ops room with the giant screen showing all the graphs and the weather channel video feed!

Good idea.

Even better idea is put the $2k x 500 into a prize pot for each month without a P0 or P1 until a P0 or P1 occurs and then divide the entire prize amongst all of those of the 500 who weren't part of the cause of the outage.

Imagine going 6 months without any outage knowing that if your system has an outage then everyone else will each get $12k but you'll get nothing.

Maybe cash out the reward every 12 months as a $24k bonus if we get to a point where we can go 12 months without an outage.

With those kinds of rewards I would be watching my system like a hawk! My system would never go down!

The $100 was a joke and the $20k vacation lottery is ridiculous.

Speaking of compensation, why are randomly picked people getting free vacations? How does that encourage anything beneficial for Sabre?

Shouldn't rewards be merit-based? Shouldn't we reward something that was purposely done that should be encouraged?

Congratulations if you just won a free vacation, that's absolutely awesome for you, but you winning a vacation isn't going to encourage anyone work harder to prevent a future outage. It makes everyone else feel even less appreciated. It's an even worse idea than giving everyone $100.

Instead of giving $100 to each of 10k people what about giving $2000 to each of the 500 people who actually have a direct impact on outage prevention and don't pay it to anyone involved in any system that does experience an outage. If other people in other areas deserve their own merit bonus encouragement then create a totally different one for them. Then people would see their good work being rewarded and they'd be punished for their mistakes. I bet stability would improve quick.

W.R.T. the Pareto distribution - are you saying ???

5% of the people generate 95% of the revenue

the top 5% of the employee compensation packages (salary + stock + options) equal 95% of the compensation paid?

Clearly, you don't know Pareto principle. Go enroll in a business school.

Or, just google before posting!

What? we want to keep Sean?

other companies what to poach him????

Every organization follows Pareto distributions. 5% of people are responsible for 95% of the revenue.

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