[munchbunny]

The new manager reportedly gave Mr. Chen verbal approval and told him to stay on the team until the PSC, but eventually gave him the "Meets Most" rating, which factually voided Mr. Chen's transfer request because the other group is very unlikely to accommodate a new IC who just received the worst possible rating, according to Facebook internal sources close to Mr. Chen.

I've heard this pattern (manager drops performance rating to block transfer) more times than I can count on two hands. I've heard this several times within two steps of my professional network. This story shows up regularly in the gender discrimination story piles.

At this point, it should be standard practice that sudden drops in performance ratings coming after team transfer attempts should trigger raised eyebrows.

[catalogia]

Something to consider: there might be a legitimate drop in performance from somebody who intends to leave a team because they are no longer satisfied with it. In those circumstances, permitting the transfer could quite possibly improve the performance of the worker since the worker is once again working on something they care about.