[Lady-Loki]

Yep, life is not always fair.

I was in a job once that went through a title change during a Union contract period and as a result of the title change we were required to pass an assessment annually to retain the new title or we would be shifted to a different department that still carried the old title.

We also got a bonus for passing the assessment with better scores - there were three bonuses:
$1000 for 80% and up and you did not have to take the assessment again for another year.
$500 for scoring 60-80% and you take the assessment again in 6 months.
$250 for scoring 40-60% and you take the assessment again in 3 months.
Below 40% you got no bonus and you take the assessment again in 3 months.

If you did not make it to the 80% and up score after 2 retest you were transferred out.

Sounded decent because even if you scored 70% you got $500 and if you score 80% on retest you get the other $500, so in the end you got $1000, but no, actually, here is where the unfair part came in:
those who scored lower got the lower bonus and retested and got the lower bonus again and on the third retest scored high enough to stay in the position and was then given a $1000 bonus for achieving the required score.

Pissed me and about 4 other people off big time because we scored in the 80% and above range on the first round and only got $1000. So a couple of the dip-shits in the office got an extra $1000 for being stupid!

Of course when we had to retest we intentionally answered incorrectly just enough to keep us in the assessment pool and got more of the bonus money the next year.

Needless to say the company got rid of that process after the third year when the directors realized what we were doing.

Still sucks that I got gyppedin that first year of assessment though.