Above is a flow chart detailing the precarious path for those accused of witchcraft, as outlined in the Malleus Maleficarum.
The Malleus Maleficarum, translated into English as “Hammer of the Witches,” is treatise on the prosecution of witches written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, a German Catholic clergyman.
Interestingly, just three years the publication of Malleus Maleficarum, the Catholic Church condemned it as false. A half century later the Spanish Inquisition cautioned its members not to believe everything written in the Malleus Maleficarum, even when it presented apparently firm evidence, according to the 2002 work, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages.
While Kramer was described by some contemporaries as eccentric and a “senile old man,” personal experience leads me to believe that the above process has been adapted by more than one US company as a means of conducting performance reviews.
There’s nothing like the review that goes something like “Did employee do well on this, this and this?” which then leads to, “Must find negative items to balance out positives.”
(HT: Waldo Lydecker’s Journal.)
The Cotton Boll Conspiracy 
I am of the view that rational thinking went out when Personnel departments started calling themselves Human Resources….and then started using humans as if they were resources.
I am of the view that you are 100 percent correct.
I am fortunate that my current employer doesn’t have a personnel department, and my current boss is not only on the ball but has a good way with people.
I was a specialist employment lawyer….I saw the changeover to HR at first hand – and the change of attitudes signaled by that change.
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