Honestly one of the worst things over the years is feeling like more and more companies don't like their best performers. High performance people are difficult

Honestly one of the worst things over the years is feeling like more and more companies don't like their best performers. High performance people are difficult. High performers have high taste & drive. They believe in themselves & their capabilities. If there's dysfunction at the workplace or corporate politics or hiccups or whatever impeding things, the high performer is the most likely to not be easy, most likely to react. The people doing the best are often the people who don't particularly fit in well with the bell curve of your organization, with being managed down to. Letting good people go, alas, is often good protection for the corporate status quo, with other workers saddled with picking up the boulder someone else put down & figuring out a new how to trudge forwards. But the corp will be glad there's less vocal people, less standout behavior, more normalized predictable & routine life.