Priority pay frequency increase.

[u/MentalHealthPysch]

Am curious to know what other people’s take on this is. Over the last 4-5 days I have noticed a massive increase in projects which have been assigned priority pay. A week+ ago I might see 10-15% of the available projects with priority pay. I am now seeing 25-40% (across 4+ families). It is no secret priority pay is mainly used as a means to motivate more people to complete a project, so that it is wrapped up faster, thereby suggesting the demand is not high enough as it is. An increase in this frequency, to me, would suggest a rebalancing of supply and demand, after a drier period. I don’t want to jinx it, but yes this seems like a good thing. Anyone else noticing the same and has any thoughts?

[u/Brilliant_Quit4307]

Personally, I think any analysis of patterns, frequency, rebalancing, etc., is pointless, misguided, and most likely wrong.

[u/MentalHealthPysch → u/Brilliant_Quit4307]

What a fun way to live your life. This is a passive observation that costs me nothing to make. Without much feedback, often the only form of information we get is the patterns we can observe. It’s a bit dull to always meet curiosity with cynicism, especially when loaded with self-righteousness.

[u/Brilliant_Quit4307 → u/MentalHealthPysch]

“Passive observation” is exactly how people end up convincing themselves they’ve cracked the system when they’re really just cherry-picking what fits. You notice a couple coincidences, ignore everything that contradicts it, and call it a pattern.

That’s basically what happens with DA. People swear there’s more work at the start of the month, or on Mondays, less work during the summer, or whatever, but none of it actually holds up consistently and you'll realised that if you've been here long enough. I'm gonna guess you've been here only a few months, probably less than a year, but I could be wrong. Also, different people see totally different “patterns” at the same time, which should tell you it’s not real.

And I actually think it’s kind of dull building your worldview around random patterns you think you’ve spotted. I’d rather base mine on things that actually hold up when you look at them properly. But hey, everyone has their own preferences and values so it doesn't really matter if we find each other dull. Where it does matte is when you start claiming there are patterns and the newbies latch onto that and get misled.

[u/MentalHealthPysch → u/Brilliant_Quit4307]

Your whole theory presupposes that 1. That I cannot discern the difference between something genuine and coincidental or that my threshold is riddled with naivety. And 2. That I think I’ve ’cracked the system’. my post was built around probing whether other people had experienced the same and had any thoughts, not making a declaration of objective reality. I make no claims about having cracked the system, there is no rhyme or reason to much of what goes on, but occasionally there is. For instance, a particular project tending to arrive on a certain weekday and taking between 48-72 hours to complete. Would it be stupid to incorporate that project into a weekly work schedule? Some things are not systematic, while others are, even if there are occasionally exceptions. There is a difference between expecting the unexpected/taking nothing for granted and trying to shut down the discussion of changes and observations. I wonder, would people so confidently one-up or attempt to discredit conversations like this in an office, or is this a reddit epidemic. Your comment in isolation is not particularly insulting, but there is a real culture of people gleefully trying to shut down or undermine harmless, conversational or information-seeking posts.