who tracked their every achievement and bandied it about looking for their prize Who said anything at all about "bandying about" performance? The point of the

who tracked their every achievement and bandied it about looking for their prize Who said anything at all about "bandying about" performance? The point of the parent comment is that this information should be reserved for the performance review with your employer, not for office chit-chat or politics. You can't claim your proper value as an engineer unless you know how well you've performed.