In both the private and the public sectors, there is a long history of job performance evaluations being an "intimidating tool that makes employees too scared to speak their minds." Someday over the rainbow, evaluations might be more than an annoyance but now in the real world they mostly are silly rituals where subordinates try to please their bosses. Most people who have worked for a living already know that. Business school professor Samuel Culbert has spent years studying job performance reviews and he explained in the New York Times why the repeal of seniority
