Performance Evaluations

www.freerepublic.com ^ | 12/04/2014 | killermosquito

[killermosquito]

My supervisor said that performance evaluations will begin soon. She wrote, "The expectation is that the company follow the ‘bell curve’ in terms of percentages of employees that rank 0 – 4. In other words, I should not have employees that all rank 3 or 4, rather they should be spread as not all employees work at the same level.

I don't think this is the right way to look at this. Grading staff isn't the same as grading a classroom full of students. We each have different rolls and expectations. Our performance should be based upon how closely we each meet expectations.

[Magic Fingers]

It’s ok as a year 1 or 2 strategy, but before long the deadwood is gone and you end up forcing out solid contributors and killing morale in the process.

[xjcsa]

We each have different rolls and expectations.

Whoever brings the best rolls to work gets to keep their job? I recommend cinnamon.

[Axenolith]

Do the people that run y’alls companies come from government???

[Usagi_yo]

Every year we got 5 reviews written about us from 5 other employees. Come review time, we individually sat in with our manager as we went through the reviews together. We got to pick some of the reviewers, the manager picked the rest. He was very smart about it too. He would go through your weekly status reports and pick names from reoccurring relationships

There was always a large disparity between reviews.

[jaydee770]

I'm familiar with those blatantly incompetent micro-management types. They really have no idea how to fix it, but feel too superior to seek/ask for help. So they flail about by (seemingly) googling management ideas and experimenting.

Though it's usually a page or two of rambling, I've had them tell me, (condensed versions) "Rate yourself so I'll know how to rate you", and "tell me how you do your job so I can tell you how to do your job", because they have no idea how I do what I do, nor do they have any idea how to tell if I'm doing it well or not and they never, ever see or witness my work before, during or after.

Like the old saying, they are "Lowering The Fences". The fences get gradually lowered enough (by "lead-from-behind" micro-managers) that the best horses start jumping over to greener pastures. Eventually, all they are left with are the low-speed, minimum-effort nags.

Micro-Managers... You can't live with 'em and you can't shoot 'em in the head and bury them under the landfill when they so desperately need it (or something like that).

[caver]

“It’s the Jack Welch school of mismanagement. Push 10% of your staff out each year using this method.”

You nailed it. And usually this 10% are people with 10-30 years experience. Then 3 months later, they hire some new college graduate that don’t know jack.

[Pecos]

One way to avoid salary cost creep is to award bonuses instead.

[SMARTY]

My performance evaluation is my supervisor’s opportunity to sit me down and kick s^%* in my face at will.

She pretty much does this all year any way, but at review time, she gets to make all the cheap shots she wants!

BUT last year I put the turd on HER plate and since it is read and SIGNED by HER supervisor.... I put the knife in and twisted it.

She’s been real docile lately :)

[EVO X]

It would seem to me that people wouldn’t have knowingly been hired on as a 0 or 1. To be ranked that low; the person would need to be unreliable, failure to keep skills sets current, have a toxic personality or some combination thereof..

[dragnet2]

I don’t know how people can deal with the fatcorp work-a-day world...From those I speak to, it’s just a punitive experience. I know a person who quit that nasty highrise experience to drive a delivery truck...His main reason was he’d had enough off all the AH’s in that world.

[SMARTY]

The problem HERE is that the management put women in positions of authority who have NO supervisory experience and who are accountable to NO ONE.

The resulting swamp here is predictable.

Women who have been given authority become more obscenely grotesque in the workplace than the worst man you EVER worked for.

[dragnet2]

Well that’s a problem everywhere...Just look at the leadership at all levels in this country...Including both sexes. It’s seriously pathetic...

[SteelTrap]

Thx Nip. I stand corrected!