that really is the truth behind storypoints, somebody wants a way to create pressure. Which is also why storypoints are so bad because now you are pressuring everybody, even the good workers, despite only wanting pressure on a couple people. And on top of that you are wasting the time of the good workers with the whole story point estimation dance.
Fred sucks. We can say his work is easy, and continually make him feel bad without firing him, or we can pretend it’s two weeks.