"I don't know where people get this idea." They get the idea that you didn't confront your manager about your real number because: 1) You've repeatedly told u

"I don't know where people get this idea." They get the idea that you didn't confront your manager about your real number because: 1) You've repeatedly told us that you don't know what your real number is. 2) Googler123 has made the declarative statement that your manager could have easily shown you the real number in the internal perf tool. 3) You haven't contradicted Googler123 that it's not true. 4) You haven't told us, "I confronted my manager about showing me my real number in the internal perf tool." From that, we're quite correct in concluding you didn't confront your manager about showing you your real number in the internal perf tool. I'm sorry you had a lousy manager. If there's something wrong with your manager, you're supposed to go to HR and you're supposed to go to your boss^2. In any company. It actually sounds like that's what you did, so why are you telling us all that the outcome is guaranteed to be "fired" or "similarly fucked", "In any company." ??? No, in the company I want to work at, if I have a lousy manager, I'm going to talk to HR and my boss^2. That's what I expect from myself, and that's what I expect from you. It even sounds like you did it - so why are you telling us not to? Google is a company made up of people. Some of them have even bothered to respond to you in this thread. And yet, you're telling them NOT to do what people SHOULD do. How exactly is ANY company supposed to get better over time, if the employees aren't brave and do what's right, even if it might have consequences for them? Or should they just quit, and then take every opportunity to smear the company on websites?