I will always hesitate to give negative feedback in the format of an official review at work. These things are attached to someone's ability to keep a roof over their head, directly and indirectly.
EDIT: in most successful teams I know manager and team are in the same boat
PMC are in the same boat in that they're not the owners but they do serve their interests
I've seen examples where the objectives of the management and the teams are sufficiently aligned by the owners to create win-win situations.
Yes, it's not that typical, but it's possible.
also bosses will never be truly aligned with workers unless it’s from power workers have taken. a wage doesn’t provide the class mobility that ownership and exploitation does.
My experience so far is that this means permanent micromanagement because nobody can claim perfection. Might work for some people but I couldn't find a way to view it but as insidious. When I left myself open to essentially permanent criticism of not just my output but how I produce my output at further granularity it led to a frankly confusing role where my manager might as well have been pervertedly resting his hands upon mine and trying to help me type better.
> Uhh Jim what are you doing?
> I don't want to do this but your typing KPIs are in the toilet, I want to try something.
> This isn't funny Jim, we seriously need to talk about the requirements I'm getting.
> You don't understand the requirements? We need to get in a meeting.
> I haven't received feedback on the last round of contradictions I reported.
> Let's get in a meeting after we work on your typing.
My suggestion was to fire Jim but that process improvement was denied.
I think that shouldn't discredit the original concept though.
> My suggestion was to fire Jim but that process improvement was denied.
Funny, and maybe the best solution, given the scenario, but I guess my mind was set on more constructive criticism :)