Performance Review: Poor Communication Skills
on 04/22/2007 at 02:50 PM
Skip, put the new gun away 2% aint bad.
Squiggler, I believe you were a victim of affirmative action and preordained outcomes resulting therefrom. It was rampant where I worked; in fact, managers’ performance appraisals put a 10% bonus value for affirmative action activities like this. I loved my work, but the last ten years became infuriating and demeaning the more I saw of the insidious activity going on. I got to the point where I refused to do the appraisal BS, and instead of writing my own appraisal, simply listed my accomplishments and the beneficiary of them with a contact name and gave my boss the list.
i am an Amrican, look at the flag next to my name, i got a 1% pay rise and im fucking angry, my water pistol is loaded and im ready to go, dont worry squiggler i will point out to my boss that his pants are 100% wetter than when he walked in, and after 15 seconds i will quit, God bless Amricar.
I discovered the ‘system’ years ago as well. When a supervisor doesn’t provide any feedback for the employee during the rest of the year all the review provides is a snapshot into someone else’s version of reality. In other words you (the supervisor) haven’t the slightest fucking idea of what I did last year, am currently clueless as to what I do on a daily basis, and will give me the same raise as everyone else regardless of either how hard or how little I worked. Angry? No, realistic.
Yep, it sucks. Then you have companies that do the Quartile/Quintile thing. I lived through several of those and saw instantly that it was BS. Or that the whole thing was based on the number of headaches you didn’t cause management. But to be a “proactive” “go forward” “risk taking leader” who knew it was “better to apologize than ask permission” you had to cause some headaches. It sucked. The real lesson was that to get ahead you had to be a quiet soulless drone and be able to fake sincere belief in corporate policy even when you knew it was total BS.
A place I worked at (nearly 15 years), did that whole performance review sham every year. It never really mattered, everyone got 3% regardless of whether they slacked or busted their tails.
One year, the supervisor in charge of the production floor decided that rather than “review” his people, he would just give everyone a 5 (on a scale of 1 to 9). These things are supposed to be confidential, but it was only a couple of days before everyone one the floor knew what everyone else had. The supervisor in question found himself having to explain himself to his bosses. He said since everyone was going to get the same raise, there was no need to actually provide a real review. In the end, he had to redo all of the reviews properly, but everyone received 3%.
04/22/2007 at 03:10 PM
