OgreMkV
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Joined: Oct. 2009
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| Quote (Soapy Sam @ Feb. 09 2012,06:22) | | Quote (OgreMkV @ Feb. 08 2012,10:38) | GAAAHHH!!! I hate performance appraisals. The only bit that's really important is the bit that has nothing to do with the actual performance.
Sample comments from my boss:
| Quote | | {Ogre} is so knowledgeable about science that he can construct fusion powerplants and convert raw carbon into diamonds. |
| Quote | | {Ogre's} collaboration and communication skills are such that the Israel/Palestine conflict might never had happened if he had been involved. |
| Quote | | {Ogre's} technical skills and knowledge are so great that he successfully created an alternative world-wide internet using only paper cups and string. |
| Quote | | {Ogre's} industry and organizational knowledge is so important that our company would be little more than a lemonade stand on a street corner without him. |
Performance Ratings:
Outstanding
Satisfactory
Needs Improvement
[Ogre's] rating: Satisfactory
sigh...
and I didn't even blow anything up... this year. |
I feel your pain. I used to be freelance. I got a tidy sum and never-ending contract extensions. They kept offering me a permanent position, and I resisted. Then ... the UK government, tax legislation, family to feed blahdeblah.. I took it.
Next up I am invited to participate in the performance system. "We know we have been paying you twice as much as a freelancer and been pleased enough with your work to offer you a job, but I'm afraid ... this year you are 'partially successful'". No pay rise, no bonus, thanks for being brilliant at your job but you're shit at gathering evidence of it.
We're supposed to take an active role in 'evidencing' our performance and (puke) our "behaviours". I can't be bothered, having spent 10 years with them not doing so, so every year it's the same. "Partially successful". "I'll fuck off then, shall I? "No, no, no .... ". Every year I win. I've handed my notice in twice, they ask me to reconsider, I suggest they reconsider the grade.
We have now been told that Performance meetings will go from 6 a year (5 too many) to ... 12! I presently work 2 days a week, so that's one every 8 working days ...
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Ouch, yeah that sucks. Fortunately, my customers and bosses are pretty good about sending 'well done' e-mails and the like. So, I just save all those. Of course, it helps to actually measurable goals... x items produced, on time, under budget, with at least a 95% acceptance rate.
I've been told that I'm on the short list for promotion next year, of course, I've been told that for two years now. Apparently, my present manager was too lazy to fill out promotion forms and now there's a backlog of people to promote... sigh.
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