Excellent timing for me. Just this past week, I set up a Wufoo form as a performance review for myself. I asked a bunch of users at my current client to fill

Excellent timing for me. Just this past week, I set up a Wufoo form as a performance review for myself. I asked a bunch of users at my current client to fill it out to let me know how I've been doing. I thought it would be useful for me, since I don't have any formal feedback mechanisms as an independent consultant. Everyone was happy to oblige and several filled out a form. Then I got a call from someone who, just on a whim, decided to check with HR first. That's how we found out that it's against company policy to allow people to provide feedback to outside consultants. This is in case the consultant gets let go and the feedback contradicts that of the consultant's direct supervisor. If some kind of dispute arises, they want everything to match the company line. Having worked for these types of corporations for so long, I completely understand how this policy came about. However, thoughts of "evil" Toby from "The Office" keep cropping up somehow.