[axetheone]

"If you want them to MAYBE change, talk to them directly. If you want them to get stabbed by management, put it in their performance review."

I'm pretty sure that happened to me in the past (and unwillingly done that to others). Having that said I really agree with the modus operandi that's necessary for the clown shows that "performance reviews" are, which are mostly an after the fact plausible justification in order to occlude a very simple thing: on whether a manager likes you or not and if you scratched his back properly.