Interesting, thanks for the response and for the link. > Underperformed is a fair reason, and formal stack ranking is a fair process (i.e. no discrimination).

Interesting, thanks for the response and for the link. > Underperformed is a fair reason, and formal stack ranking is a fair process (i.e. no discrimination). Would you say that the legal definition of fair was that the outcome was non-discriminatory (for instance, not occurring on the basis of race, gender etc)? It seems to me that the system goes further than that, and is specifically designed to prevent employees from being fired because 'they didn't fit in', but rather for clear-cut performance reasons, and it would be trivial to argue that stack ranking was measuring the former, not the latter. i.e. you could argue, and it could well be the case, that your low ranking within a team was due to being outside a clique, or due to internal politics, and it didn't represent a fair measurement of performance.