Spike ,'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I finally had a check-in with my boss where I didn't cry about my mid-year reviews or something else (we check in on the phone now, so I'm a little more apt to cry and hope she didn't notice...)!
And we just got a notice about annual reviews starting up. Ha. ha. ha.
At least I'm pretty confident the traumatic part of the mid-years won't be revisited.
Ohhhh, I thought the "you" in that sentence was the employee being reviewed and could not figure it out.
Basically, we're graded on a curve and our immediate supervisors get in trouble for giving too many A's, regardless of actual performance.
Stack ranking! MSFT had the added problem of each manager going up the food chain had to fight other managers to get the limited number of A's for their employees.
I suspect my company has gone to stack ranking, but not told anyone.
Person who uses my email address just bought $100 worth of medical marijuana from a place in Tuscon.
Basically, we're graded on a curve and our immediate supervisors get in trouble for giving too many A's, regardless of actual performance.
Like msbelle said, this doesn't give employees any incentive to work to exceed expectations if your A work gets curved down to a B or lower. If you're going to give me a B or C no matter how good my work is, then I'm not going to bust my ass to give you A work. That is some kind of bullshit.
Right, there is only so much $$ to go around and only so many As that can be given, and you can't be an A 2 years in a row in the same job, and you can;t be an A your first year in a job. And people who never work with you, tell your boss that they don't think you were an A this year. It's all very stupid. And they want us to do even more work on these reviews, it is ridiculous and will be the main thing I give them feedback about when I leave.
I understand that the reason review processes are so ridiculous is that "not enough feedback on my work" is a big negative thing people say about their job. But don't they usually mean regular, immediate feedback? Like, they have a boss who they don't talk to. Not that they don't get to spend 800 hours filling out evaluation forms once a year.
I always hate it when a supervisor says, proudly, "I never give 'exceeds expectations' on a review". WTF? Are your expectations so high that no one can exceed them? or are you just playing mind games to get more out of your peons?
Right, there is only so much $$ to go around and only so many As that can be given
We have that too, and it is BULLSHIT.
I understand that the reason review processes are so ridiculous is that "not enough feedback on my work" is a big negative thing people say about their job. But don't they usually mean regular, immediate feedback? Like, they have a boss who they don't talk to. Not that they don't get to spend 800 hours filling out evaluation forms once a year.
Much like the evaluations we fill out for corporate that consistently complain about lack of communication, which they send back to us to correct locally. It's like, No, Dumbasses, we talk to EACH OTHER just fine, it's you dinks who forget to copy us on the memos.
I always hate it when a supervisor says, proudly, "I never give 'exceeds expectations' on a review". WTF? Are your expectations so high that no one can exceed them? or are you just playing mind games to get more out of your peons?
Perfect plan to create employees who don't bother to try.