In other words, the rules don't apply to people who are "top performers"? This mentality will drive out all of the other people working for you, so even ignoring the obvious issues with how enables all sorts of shitty behavior from certain people, you're going to cost yourself more from losing larger numbers of "lower performers" in the long run (unless you end up replenishing the numbers with people equally shitty or at least willing to tolerate shittiness, which I guess would explain the stories of literal cesspools that have cropped up over the years that otherwise are hard to even comprehend).