trying to remember the circumstances of this now. it was during a time that the company was trying to make the transition from being a "medium sized" company to a "large" company and reasoning that if they wanted to be large they had to adopt large company attitudes. they got this idea that a large company had a large staff turnover and were threatening a policy whereby the 10% least productive employees would be fired every year. absolutely batshit stuff. i left shortly after that.