That is not at all how this survey data will be used, nor how it will be interpreted—or how it will be allowed to be interpreted—by anyone back at HQ. Their interpretation transmutes whatever score I give into a referendum on Angela’s performance. The metric would not be allowed to tell them what I was trying to tell them but would, instead, be treated as quantitative confirmation against Angela’s value as an employee and a reason to refuse her the full $0.25 pay bump she might otherwise dream she was entitled to after her next annual review. “I’m sorry, Angela, but you’re not getting all fives from every survey.” So Angela gets all fives from me. Everybody does, regardless.

Slacktivist, “All Fives”