> It's the choice of who gets out that matters. You contradict your own point above > has higher-ups (L7 and up) involved in deciding who performed according

> It's the choice of who gets out that matters. You contradict your own point above > has higher-ups (L7 and up) involved in deciding who performed according to the manager's expectations. These higher ups tend to have extremely well-tuned bullshit detectors and it would be extremely hard for a manager to sabotage an employee and get them categorized as underperforming. It would reflect worse on the manager not the employee.