Unfair appraisals

[MorkandMindy]

Ok, lets let rip on these pages - appraisals you've had and how unfair they've been, just any sort of appraisal at all, even just a word from the boss.



I do work that is well above the level I'm paid to work at, I do it well and stay late to finish. Last year I did a third of all the work done by my department.


I've had 3 yearly assessments now and scored slightly below average in all of them.


I'll get out when I can, but until then my coping strategy is to accept that I really am working for myself, and my bosses (I have 3 official bosses) are just spectators.

 

[bricklayer]

Ok, lets let rip on these pages - appraisals you've had and how unfair they've been, just any sort of appraisal at all, even just a word from the boss.



I do work that is well above the level I'm paid to work at, I do it well and stay late to finish. Last year I did a third of all the work done by my department.


I've had 3 yearly assessments now and scored slightly below average in all of them.


I'll get out when I can, but until then my coping strategy is to accept that I really am working for myself, and my bosses (I have 3 official bosses) are just spectators.

and you're still so sure of yourself. Cause and effect are not usually so far afield. The fix must be in, no?
No! It's capitalism! Must be the "system", because any system that doesn't recognize your value .....

Then again, maybe you're wrong.
As an employer, from what little I know of you, I wouldn't let you infect my work sites with your attitudes.
You certainly would not fit in around here anymore than things seem to be fitting there.

But, we're all just a bunch of freedom loving capitalists prospering around here anyway, not really you crowd.

 

[MorkandMindy]

and you're still so sure of yourself. Cause and effect are not usually so far afield. The fix must be in, no?
No! It's capitalism! Must be the "system", because any system that doesn't recognize your value .....

Then again, maybe you're wrong.
As an employer, from what little I know of you, I wouldn't let you infect my work sites with your attitudes.
You certainly would not fit in around here anymore than things seem to be fitting there.

But, we're all just a bunch of freedom loving capitalists prospering around here anyway, not really you crowd.

This was intended to be a thread to vent, exaggerate a bit even, really let loose, Friday/ Sat. night stuff.


But if you want to be a kill joy, then since the thread isn't achieving it's original purpose just yet, well, I'll explain a bit.


1. The 'below average' means 'fully satisfactory' but because no one this year achieved unsatisfactory and a few got the grade above and two got the grade above that, it is effectively slightly below average.

2. We work together and know each other rather well, we can therefore work out the reasoning behind the gradings, this year's, last year's and the year before. I was just complaining since it is that kind of thread; not explaining.

3. My morale is not bad, in fact it is pretty good despite being in a particularly nasty situation at work, caught between two departments with conflicting aims, and with more bosses than anyone else has.

4. The difference between myself and a few of the most demoralised is they are simply kicking against the pricks whereas I spend my time getting around them. I just have a particularly large number of problems to get around, but I'm keeping up, just barely with a lot of help from my friends. In turn I do my best to help others with the problems they are facing.

5. The assessment system introduced at work was brought in because it was recognised that the previous one did not work. It is now almost universally accepted that the new one is even worse. I had great hopes for it for the entire year despite what others said and it wasn't until the second year had finished that I saw through the total stupidity of it. I also have to mention that top management have made minimal use of the new assessments themselves - it is a system already waiting to be replaced.


Perhaps you have had the fortune not to meet complex ill defined assessment systems used by large companies with totally ad hoc corporate structures, which nonetheless function but don't suit any but the most imprecise assessment methods.

To paraphrase Demming; the things we can accurately measure about a company frequently are trivially unimportant and the things that really matter are difficult if not impossible to assess accurately.




So post in this thread and let rip !

 

[bricklayer]

I can't stand people that sell them self short, those who believe that they need someone else to actualize their value.

I can't stand it when people laugh at the idea that because I can do it they can do it.

I can't stand to be tempted to even begin to start to even feel that I'm better than anyone.
That is why I will never stop trying to get others to appraise them self rightly, to join in personal responsibility and shun public authority.

I can't stand it when people assume that because I don't want money taken from some and transfered to others that I don't believe in and promote giving.

I can't stand when people equate taking from one and transferring to another with giving.
TAKING IN THE NAME OF GIVING IS NOT GIVING !!!!

Then there are those who sincerely believe that they don't have because another does have, they get what they deserve.
That I'm OK with.

 

[lifesinsane]

Just do this:

\"Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.\"

and it won\'t matter what the assessment is. Of course if you know you have to move on then you have to do that but let the Lord lead you and you\'ll wind up in a good spot.

 

[DaisyDay]

I can't stand people that sell them self short, those who believe that they need someone else to actualize their value.

I can't stand it when people laugh at the idea that because I can do it they can do it.

I can't stand to be tempted to even begin to start to even feel that I'm better than anyone.
That is why I will never stop trying to get others to appraise them self rightly, to join in personal responsibility and shun public authority.

I can't stand it when people assume that because I don't want money taken from some and transfered to others that I don't believe in and promote giving.

I can't stand when people equate taking from one and transferring to another with giving.
TAKING IN THE NAME OF GIVING IS NOT GIVING !!!!

Then there are those who sincerely believe that they don't have because another does have, they get what they deserve.
That I'm OK with.

This rant is in the wrong thread. This thread is about bad appraisals. If you think there aren't any, that any appraisal given is just then you haven't worked in a corporate/bureaucratic environment.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Oh well, since nobody's come in here to rant I'll admit I do understand the unfair appraisal;

I don't agree with it and I'm not pleased that the appraisal system claims to be something that it isn't, but I do know how it reached the value it reached.

1. Claims to be something it isn't
A lot of people at work are non plussed that the new appraisal system isn't more objective than the old one. We've put a lot of effort into providing evidence of our work and progress but in the end it has been ignored in the assessments which have been just as subjective as they've always been. One co worker was going to let rip at management but wisely decided not to but instead came up with the solution that if they don't read it then he won't write it and just changed the dates on the previous year's submissions. I think everyone should do that.


2. What it actually is
I've noticed the way assessments usually work in my experience in Britain. The assessment is used to support a promotion and therefore good work even exceptionally good work will only ever give an average grade.

What the assessor is looking for is potential to work at the next level, and therefore again the assessment isn't what it is claimed to be, but rather than endlessly complaining I just accept reality and progress from there. Yes, I can work at the next level but there are ways to show it which I have set these as my goals and when the level of 'fire fighting' comes down slightly I'll be able to progress them.