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This job requires an annual review. It is less personal and hurtful than the ones Oracle management used to hand out, but still stings. It is as though they must find the one thing to say that will hurt you the most, and not only do they say it, they harp on it for an hour.
Then they tell you to do everything better next year, and compare you unfavorably to one of their favorites.

Is there a way to make it less unpleasant? Of course there is.
Will they do so? Hell no.