There are people who can thrive in a "boss" culture. There are people who can't. I did that TPS Report bullshit for ten years and didn't bail on it until it totally hung me out to dry.

The culture may not be for you.

The thing about performance reviews is that, at the level you're at, they're a bullshit kabuki exercise in "come up with a reason to not give this person a raise." It appears that you aren't wearing enough pieces of flair.

So to answer your question: I avoid bullshit. I have crafted my life in such a way that bullshit is optional. This means that while it is never completely avoided, it is generally ephemeral and its scope rarely surprises.

Do you know how good it feels to fire clients?

Here's my advice: If someone needs to have a meeting scheduled and a procedure invoked before they give a shit about how you do your job, they don't actually give a shit how you do your job. If you want to continue to do your job, continue doing your job. If you want to fit your peg into their hole, do whatever kabuki bullshit they require of you to beat it to fit but recognize fully that you're doing kabuki bullshit, not doing your job. And if you don't much care for your job, you really aren't going to care for the kabuki bullshit.

I worked for 7-11 in college for a whopping six weeks. Put on the little vest and everything. Maintained the slurpee machine. Six weeks into it the owner of the six stores I worked at (my de-facto supervisor) pulled security tapes and discovered I was reading a magazine at 3am. He told me that if he caught me doing that again I'd lose my job - I told him not to bother snooping security tapes, I was fuckin' done.

This is your life. You are actively choosing how you spend it. Perhaps the work review isn't the only review this week.