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Explain stack ranking and PRP then

Those are pretty terrible (and I've heard that at least MS finally got rid of stack ranking) but compared to the kind of shit that an employee at a fast food chain has to go through, it's a blissful paradise.

Until they were shamed in the mainstream media, Starbucks used to treat employees schedules as linear optimization problems without any regard for the human beings behind them: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-w...

"""Last month, she was scheduled to work until 11 p.m. on Friday, July 4; report again just hours later, at 4 a.m. on Saturday; and start again at 5 a.m. on Sunday."""

Couldn't Starbucks just add another optimization term that demands a minimum amount of time off?

Yes, they could do, but then they might have to have another employee or some other such that means they make a little less profit, so fuck the workers, if they don't want the job there's some other sucker who'll thank me for the chance to be exploited.

That makes sense. I was thinking that this sounds more like a problem with corporate culture, rather than a problem with optimization. If you have a culture that doesn't value your workers, any effective optimization method will lead to outcomes like this.

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