After reading Tim Dellinger's article[^0] on performance, I wondered what distribution the firing system he alludes to would lead to. TL;DR: under some not-too-outlandish assumptions, it certainly quacks like a Pareto distribution.<p>[^0]: <a href="https://timdellinger.substack.com/p/hey-wait-is-employee-performance" rel="nofollow">https://timdellinger.substack.com/p/hey-wait-is-employee-per...</a><p>If you're interested, do mess around with the code. (I'm not sure if this should be a Show HN.)