Upper management bans above-average reviews to avoid raises, pushing employees to question why they should even try: ‘I was shocked when I got a “met expectations,” 3/5 across the board’

Here's a classic corporate power move: spend hours designing an intricate performance review process. A system to measure success, reward effort, and highlight areas for growth. Sounds promising, right? Now, at the last minute, remember that rewarding success might cost money—GASP—and proceed to rate everyone as "meh." Boom! What a win! You've successfully created a system that requires time, energy, and paperwork but accomplishes absolutely nothing. Hooray for us! Someone get the PowerPoint ready; we're adding this to the quarterly accomplishments slide.

Isn't corporate culture magnificent? The sheer audacity of inventing elaborate frameworks solely to ignore their purpose deserves some kind of award. Probably a "met expectations" one. It's like building a fancy ice cream shop with 31 flavors but only ever serving vanilla. Exciting! Innovative! Revolutionary!

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Saved the company millions? “Met expectations!” Set the break room on fire while microwaving a fish sandwich? Also “met expectations!” Showed up wearing pants? “Exceeding expectations”—just kidding! That’s “met expectations” too! It’s like a carnival game where every prize is the same tiny plastic finger trap, no matter how accurately you throw the ball.
"Boss admitted that upper management is forbidding managers from giving positive performance reviews."

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