Does this company use any form of stack ranking to determine bonuses? It sounds like one possibility is your boss may have been trying to prevent you from gett

Does this company use any form of stack ranking to determine bonuses? It sounds like one possibility is your boss may have been trying to prevent you from getting to his level which would mean he would have to compete with you. Stack ranking incentivizes people at higher levels to only allow incompetent people to get to their level because they’ll look better in comparison.