Late 1980s joke: &quot;How many people work at DEC?&quot;  &quot;About a quarter of them.&quot;<p>Pay increases were a percentage of each group&#x27;s payroll. Several groups had CTs (corporate turkeys). These were highly compensated people with a dotted line relationship to Dr. Bell&#x27;s No Output Division. The deal was, they could work on NOD projects to their hearts&#x27; content, but they should not expect raises. That allowed the raise budget to be spent on the other folks.<p>For a while they had a policy that poor performers had their performance reviews delayed. This meant that you couldn&#x27;t tell if it was you yourself who was incompetent, or your manager.  (Incompetent managers often were late doing performance reviews for their people.)<p>Now all that&#x27;s left is the Digital Credit Union. It&#x27;s sad; they had many great people and some great products.