The "bonus" concept is such a scam.

You don't know 50%+ of your total comp until bonus day and it forces retention as it'd be dumb to switch jobs past halfway through the year since you'd be "losing" some of your bonus

Nobody would do this job for just the base

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It’s like that by design, not by chance.

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How you made Associate Director is beyond me with that level of thinking… lord.

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That's the design to retain talent if we knew prior no one would stay

How else should it work? It’s not like leadership is calculating individual bonuses in real time daily and is hiding that info from us. Most of the math is related to firm / group performance

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