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by arethuza 2112 days ago
I worked in a large company for a number of years that had a system where you were scored 1 to 5 (1 being bad and 5 excellent).

However, it really meant you were scored as either 3 or 4 as "nobody is a five and if you were a one or two you wouldn't be here anymore". My manager and I did agree it was a silly system so we settled on me being a 4 and I set everyone who reported to me as all 4s - even though they all deserved 5s.