Team lead quits on the spot after upper management reprimands him for giving employees 5 out of 5 on their performance reviews: 'You quite literally will never be good enough in their eyes, by design'

Performance reviews can be unfair for many employees, but this manager learned just how unfair they actually were, thereby leading to his unplanned resignation.

This team lead had been recently promoted to a managerial position after the person directly above him quit on the spot. Unfortunately, that seemed to be a frequent occurrence at this international organization with more than 6000 employees at the company. Still, because this guy was essentially thrown into this new role with little to no training, he was anxious about the upcoming round of performance reviews he had to conduct.

This would be the first time that this employee would find himself on the other side of a performance review. He was used to answering a series of questions about his own abilities and achievements. He was used to the format his company used for these annual meetings, where employees ranked their performance per category on a scale on 1 to 5 (with 5 being considered "excellent").

However, for the first time, he would be ranking the performance of others. For many folks in his position, this would be an exciting opportunity to show the people on your team how proud you are of their hard work while giving honest feedback about any room for improvement. Yet just before these reviews started, the team lead learned some new information from upper management about how he was expected to rank the performance of his employees. Let's just say that this was not exactly the kind of news any proud manager wants to hear…

The team lead learned that he was not allowed to give anyone a perfect score of 5 in any category, regardless of who they were. It did not matter if they were going above and beyond. It did not matter if they were exceeding all expectations and then some. The company refused to allow anyone to get a 5 presumably so that they could use these reports as ways to defend their choices when they denied raises and promotions to team members down the road.
Thankfully, this author knew immediately that this was not the type of company he wanted to work for anymore. Now that he had a greater understanding of how the sausage is made, so to speak, he refused to enable this mentality and remain a part of the company. Honestly, we cannot help but applaud him for sticking to his moral backbone.
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"Impossible to receive a 5 out of 5 on any aspect of your annual review."

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