So now we have to explicitly go into each ticket and mark it as dissatisfied, since they don’t take into account how long the ticket was open, how many meetings had to be called over the ticket, etc. just whether it was closed without clicking the extra “we’re dissatisfied” button

That sucks. A rigid KPI that is never open to change and only made to show some BLING in meetings, it will always lead to failure.

And when the KPIs are bad, they blame us. We had lots of failures in streaming videos on our platform and it was growing across a range of mobile OSs and devices, and they would just say, very sternly, “We need you to deliver better results!”. Meanwhile, they had us do a huge migration and rebuild the entire UI across all devices all while maintaining the legacy systems that are sometimes riddled with bugs. Fucking idiots! They shouldn’t expect X performance with Y² the number of tasks (I would have said 2*Y if it was “double” the work… it was more like being on steroids, it was Y² the work, everyone was burnt out, people barely took the summer off). We met those KPIs by a margin previously, and we’re not about to meet them now unless they hire more staff or give us more time until their new UI launch. Spoiler: the launch did not go well.