So if you’re doing a shitty job I’m an asshole if I give you a shitty review? What’s the point of reviews then?
Translation: “I don’t have a good response, so I’ll just pretend like I don’t care. Only instead of just unsuscribing from the thread, I’m going to *tell *you that I don’t care.”
Yes, I can see that you don’t care at all and are clearly moving on.
Zsofia, I think the point was that the shitty review bears no relation to the quality of the job. Instead, it has a direct relationship to the high degree of self-preservation and minimal degree of competence found in someone holding msmith537’s position.
Yes, the point is that he’d be using his position to destroy someone doing competent work for no other reason than he rubbed him the wrong way.
Sheesh, are you two still going at it? Get a room already. (msmith and SteveG1, that is.) It’s Thanksgiving Day here today - you two should give thanks that you have hands and eyes and computers to use to argue with each other.
this is the single most satisfying part of owning your own business.
What if you don’t want to sit around naked in the woods with other men, passing a dildo around? You get carpooled in, you can’t leave, and everyone’s being told to tell their sexual experiences to each other? Oh, and your boss is over there. Naked. Listening.
But…but…but it would be so ungrateful of them to not use those gifts!
Yeah, what about all the starving kids in Africa who can’t call msmith537 a royal douche?
There’s a dildo and the boss is naked also? Team-building!!! 
Starving? You don’t need food to do that, just a computer and enough appendages to operate the I/O devices.
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving, Cat Whisperer!
It’s a little hard to type when your body doesn’t have the caloric energy to do anything but lie on the ground and bloat.
Apparently he didn’t have that much courage, no.
More sterling leadership and great teaming:
Good point, good point.
(I had a lovely Thanksgiving day - went shopping, went for dinner, and now I’m watching House. Doesn’t get much better than that. 
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My understanding is that they weren’t being given bad reviews for doing a shitty job, but for rather for not being “rah-rah, go team!” asskissers. The theory given was that such a person has a bad attitude and will spread discontent and lower morale throughout the company, so they can and will be gotten rid of by any means necessary regardless of quality of work. The corollary of this theory, of course, is that knowing you can be forced out by dishonest means at any point because some self-important dickwad thinks you’re not wearing enough pieces of flair is somehow good for morale. In other words, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Also known as the “Office Space Pieces of Flair Theory.” 
I’ve got a surly-bordering-on-hostile employee in my department. As long as you do everything her way, she’s content to merely be antisocial. She’s quite competent, so I have no interest in forcing her out, but if our incoming business ever slowed down to where we had to let someone go, it’d be an awful hard decision between the fast but surly employee and the slow but social employee. I’m pretty sure I’d wind up keeping the slow but social one, simply because I’d much prefer cooperation over hostility. One says, “I’m done, is there anything else I can help with?” The other says, “I’m done, can I go?” and god help you if you have something you need help with. I know which one helps this place run more smoothly.
But the one who says, “I’m done, can I go?” says it more often, right?
Not sure what you mean there.