I don't know how jocose you wanted to make it, but it's really not that far-fetched from reality in companies where performance review results are stacked or qu

I don't know how jocose you wanted to make it, but it's really not that far-fetched from reality in companies where performance review results are stacked or quota-based. I saw it happening first-hand and it is indeed revolting. Humans shouldn't be handled like ordinary resources. And the worst thing is that these strategies aren't any better in managing subjectivity and prejudice. For all its quantitativeness and statistically-oriented methods (e.g. fitting the performances to a normal distribution), these systems are subject to biases just like others. More often than it should, your placement in the stack or distribution reflects more your influence and relationship with evaluators than your actual performance.