[ath3nd]

> All this imbecility does is to create competition, and weed out the ones that don't comply.

This ten million times. It's about control, and it's about showing you that the only way to be considered to be doing your job, is if you abandon all dignity, and allow yourself to be treated as a child.

The adults (POs and managerial folk) are making your planning, your regime, you constantly report to them them what you are busy with, you summarize what you learned last week and what you'd be doing today, and you present to them your paintings for evaluation. It's so degrading and humiliating, but that's by design!