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At my company, the annual employee ranking uses a 5-point scale, which for the sake of simplicity, I'll call A (highest), B, C D E (lowest). A manager is only allowed a certain number of A's, and must have a certain number of E's. Irrespective of how well you performed, you run the risk of being an "E". As you can imagine, this creates a lot of political machinations. To make things even better, each manager is given a pot of bonus money to distribute as he sees fit.