Performance reviews are just employers controlling the narrative when employees are underpaid
Right?
If you underperform, brutal negotiations ensue … prove your value or the deal is off.
Buuut, if you’re overperforming, you get gold stickers and praise, and the possibility of a pay bump through a process controlled by the employer …
instead of you telling the employer that *they* have to prove their value or the deal is off.
Instead over performing then becomes the expectation.
If we hire 10 people, 2 will be in the bottom 20%, even if they are meeting their responsibilities.