Everyone dreads the annual performance review. But has one ever left you in tears?

For some workers, the annual meeting with their manager is an emotionally scarring exercise in humiliation that can push them to tears — or even quitting, a new survey from Adobe finds. In a sample of 1,500 office workers, 22 percent admitted to having cried after a review. Nearly as many said they'd quit. 

More men said they'd cried than women. More men said they had quit, too.

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