I worked on a big team at Microsoft about 8 years ago. The overall project was behind so they started buying us dinner every night until we could stay late and

I worked on a big team at Microsoft about 8 years ago. The overall project was behind so they started buying us dinner every night until we could stay late and get back on schedule. The sub team that I worked on wasn't behind at all so I just went home like normal every day. After a few days of this my manager pulled me aside saying that some of the higher ups had noticed I wasn't staying late with the rest of the team. Of course I wasn't. I didn't have any work to do. I started showing up to the team dinners, but it seems the damage was done. My next review went poorly and I immediately started looking for a new job because I didn't want to deal with that bullshit anymore. Coincidentally, I believe that was the last review Microsoft did with their infamous stack ranking so maybe the next one would have gone better.