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A meme using a scene from a live-action film/TV show featuring two characters engaged in a conversation. The top of the image labels one character as 'THE WORKERS' and the other as 'UPPER MANAGEMENT' via overlaid text. The dialogue humorously contrasts the consequences of not meeting KPIs: workers are fired for others' failures, while workers themselves face termination for their own, culminating in the line 'THAT DOESN'T SEEM FAIR' to highlight workplace inequality. The bottom left corner contains the 'imgflip.com' watermark, indicating it was created with the Imgflip meme generator.
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THE WORKERS
YOU DON'T MEET YOUR KPI AND YOU FIRE PEOPLE
UPPER MANAGEMENT
I DON'T MEET MY KPI AND I GET FIRED
THE WORKERS
THAT DOESN'T SEEM FAIR

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Highlighting unfair KPI consequences between workers and upper management during annual reviews

Overview

A meme using a scene from a live-action film/TV show featuring two characters engaged in a conversation. The top of the image labels one character as 'THE WORKERS' and the other as 'UPPER MANAGEMENT' via overlaid text. The dialogue humorously contrasts the consequences of not meeting KPIs: workers are fired for others' failures, while workers themselves face termination for their own, culminating in the line 'THAT DOESN'T SEEM FAIR' to highlight workplace inequality. The bottom left corner contains the 'imgflip.com' watermark, indicating it was created with the Imgflip meme generator.

Origin notes

The meme originates from Reddit (as specified in the additional information), created by editing a live-action scene (likely from a movie or TV show) with overlaid text to critique the unfairness of KPI consequences between workers and upper management during annual reviews. The presence of the 'imgflip.com' watermark confirms it was produced using the Imgflip online meme generator, a common tool for such user-created content.

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