Company recently did annual reviews and gave all poor reviews because they equate the score with the pay increase. The review comments says “John/Jane Doe did a great job, above and beyond, blah blah blah” but the score is 2/5 or 3/5. Heard from multiple employees and managers.
Needless to say, morale is shit and everyone is doing bare minimum.
The beginning of the year is also when we onboard a lot of new business on very tight timeline.
An analyst (nice guy) made a mistake and might cost about $200k/month worth of new business on a high visibility project that I'm overseeing.
I need to clear my name so I don't get blamed for this, but also don't want to get my coworker fired because the company kinda deserves this. How do I present this to executives?