Pics or it didn’t happen. This is an online reply to a claim that sounds too good to be true. Wiktionary defines it as “Used to demand verifiable evidence for a statement.”
Know Your Meme traces the earliest known use to a gaming forum in June 2003. In February 2007 the phrase became Rule 24 of the “Rules of the Internet.”
On February 13, 2012, the police department of Rialto, California, began a 12-month experiment with cameras worn by its officers. Use of force fell from 61 incidents in the previous 12 months to 25. Citizen complaints fell from 24 to 3.
The record protects more than citizens. A lawyer for the ACLU of Southern California told ABC7 that the cameras were useful in “protecting officers against false accusations of abuse.”
In April 2015 Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall described in Harvard Business Review how Deloitte rethought its performance reviews. The firm had added up what its system cost. It found that it was spending “close to 2 million hours a year on performance management.”
The State of Nevada’s human resources guide lists the levels of progressive discipline in order: oral warning, written warning, suspension, demotion and separation.
The first step is a conversation. The second is “Written notice of discipline documented on the Written Reprimand form.” A suspension places an employee “on a leave of absence without pay for no more than 30 calendar days.”
On March 28, 1966, the arbitrator Carroll R. Daugherty decided a discipline case at Enterprise Wire Co. In his decision he set out seven tests of “just cause.”
The first test asks: “Did the company give to the employee forewarning or foreknowledge of the possible or probably disciplinary consequences of the employee’s conduct?”
The US Army records counseling on DA Form 4856, the Developmental Counseling Form. It covers event-oriented counseling as well as regular performance counseling.
A US Army Reserve guide to the form says: “Both the counselor and the individual counseled should retain a record of the counseling.”
On July 24, 2017, President Donald Trump called his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, “beleaguered” on Twitter. The next day he wrote: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!”
Republican senators answered in public. Ted Cruz called Sessions “a friend and a strong conservative.” Lindsey Graham said: “He’s a rock-solid conservative, but above else he believes in the rule of law.” Richard Shelby called him “a man of integrity, loyalty, and extraordinary character.”
In 1993 Congress added Section 162(m) to the tax code. A public company could no longer deduct more than $1 million a year in pay to a top executive. Pay that counted as performance-based was exempt. Stock options typically qualified.
An article in the Pittsburgh Tax Review states that the section “contributed to the dramatic increase in the use of stock options and other forms of performance-based pay.” The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 repealed the exception.
President Jimmy Carter signed the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act on December 12, 1980. A RAND study describes the system it created as “a competitive, up-or-out career flow.”
The rule at its center is short. Officers “twice nonselected for promotion are subject to involuntary separation.”
In 2009 Netflix described its culture in a slide deck. One slide said: “Adequate performance gets a generous severance package.”
Another slide gave managers a test: “Which of my people, if they told me they were leaving, for a similar job at a peer company, would I fight hard to keep at Netflix?”