{"id":1240,"date":"2002-02-08T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2002-02-08T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2002-02-08T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2002-02-08T12:53:38","slug":"its_not_a_quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/08\/its_not_a_quota.html","title":{"rendered":"“It’s not a quota, it’s a performance standard.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver’s parking meter enforcers have to write a minimum of 75 tickets per day <\/a>(150 on street-sweeping days). If they go 10-20 minutes without writing a ticket, they have to explain themselves. Write over 100 on a given day, and they stand to get a bonus.<\/p>\n

John Oglesby, director of parking management, insisted Thursday the minimums aren’t quotas. The distinction, he said, is that employees are given the opportunity to explain why they failed to meet them.
\n“It’s not a quota; it’s a performance standard,” Oglesby said.
\nPrior to September, the ticket writers’ job description had no objective measurement against which to rate their performance, he said, which violates city personnel policy. <\/p>\n

Yeah. Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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