On September 13, 2011, my department manager and a rep from Human Resources informed me that "you have not been selected" (to continue in the new organization). I so wanted to break out in a big grin and say THANK YOU! But the department manager and HR rep seemed so solemn I could not spoil the mood for them. I will cry as I deposit the severance check, collect my pension and as it's an INVOLUNTARY retirement also get unemployment :-)
If you do below average, you are fired.
But if you do above average, you get more work for the same amount of money.
There is no way of winning when you work for someone else.