@gxu: No, I didn't sign up for it. The contract says that employment is at-will, and that Qualcomm has the right to terminate my employment at any time with or without cause. There's a world of difference between having the right to fire someone and reserving the right to insert a false evaluation into an employee's file. For performance reviews to be non-discriminatory they must, at the very least, use objectively resonable standards to measure criteria relative to the job.Have any of you ever asked to see the standards used? It's an eye-opener. Let's just say that they are so vague that a manager or director could exercise unlimited discretion in giving an employee any number. Add to this the fact that the final numbers are often assigned by persons higher up the management "food chain" who are unfamiliar with your work, who may not even know who you are, and may not even be based on your job performance.