Performance Reviews were invented to torture the employee

[Amelie]

I found out last week - on Friday exactly 15 minutes before I was to go home and enjoy my weekend - that my weeklong performance review was going to start today. I went through a tense weekend worrying over whether or not I would have a job after this week.

sigh Today has not gotten any better. I am putting huge amounts of pressure on myself to excel. I know I can do this job but I still wonder and worry and stress myself to the max.

It is at times like this that I wish I was the boss!

 

[Merelan]

Shaking head. No ya don't. Trust me.

 

[plasticman33]

Trust me hon, you don't want to be the boss. Your employees can drive you nuts. Sometimes it's like having 80 semi-retarded adults to care for.

 

[tn_8tiv]

sigh Today has not gotten any better. I am putting huge amounts of pressure on myself to excel. I know I can do this job but I still wonder and worry and stress myself to the max.

It is at times like this that I wish I was the boss!

Don't worry. You sound like you have your priorities straight. Believe me, a lot of people that I have given reviews to couldn't give a fuck about how they are perceived by their boss. At least you are concerned about your performance and that's the right attitude.

Remember: BOSS spelled backward is Double "S"OB.

 

[Amelie]

Re: Re: Performance Reviews were invented to torture the employee

Remember: BOSS spelled backward is Double "S"OB.

yup...SOBBing is what I feel like doing at them moment. I am on my way home in a minute but I feel as tho I have been put through a meat grinder!

 

[Rick DeVille]

Stop complaining. A lot of places don't give a shit about their employees, sounds like this place does. They do pay you, right? So they get to see if they're getting value for money and what training you need. Sounds fair

 

[Amelie]

Good grief. Nice to meet you too.

 

[Wiggles]

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[miles]

You guys have it all wrong

The whole process is out of date. Evaluating performance and giving feedback is an ongoing process, not an annual one. Most managers have no idea how to supervise people, much less assign point values to how well they do the job. I think more time should be spent on allowing employees to evaluate their managers and sending the results to their boss.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: You guys have it all wrong

I think more time should be spent on allowing employees to evaluate their managers and sending the results to their boss.

Its called 360 degree review and its been around a while

 

[miles]

It's been around for a long while, but very few companies use it because it works too well. One manager doing a poor job on ten performance reviews hardly gets noticed, but when ten employees or peers give one person ten bad reviews, he soon have one foot on the proverbial banana peel.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Its coming back now it can be online and anonymous, Im working for a place that uses it now for managers and they take it seriously, too seriously if you ask me but there you go

 

[christo]

I've never had a productive performance review. The manager sits across from you, he/she hands you a form with a bunch of boxes checked off, tells you why you aren't getting promoted this year, you sign it, and wander off muttering obscenities.

It's a lose-lose situation. Managers hate giving them, employees hate getting them. They do nothing to improve poor performance (other than frightening you into thinking you might get canned) and don't do much to reward good performance.

Trying to sum up a year's labor into one 10 minute meeting is pointless. Evaluating employees should be a full-time, all-year thing. Giving employees small doses of feedback, both praise and criticism, allows for constant improvement and happier workers. But, of course, most managers are too busy going to super-important meetings with other self-important managers to discuss things that have no bearing on the job at hand.

 

[miles]

Online versions have been around for a while

It's the HR Tool du jour. They will love it until it tells them what everyone else already knows, and they will scrap it.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: Online versions have been around for a while

It's the HR Tool du jour. They will love it until it tells them what everyone else already knows, and they will scrap it.

Then they'll have a group hug and inflict something else. This version has photgraphs in it so you can remember what your manager looks like while you do the review. Technology is wonderful

 

[miles]

christo

But, of course, most managers are too busy going to super-important meetings with other self-important managers to discuss things that have no bearing on the job at hand.

That's not why they give lousy reviews.

Managers are just people. There are good ones and bad ones. Most got their job because they have the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to be successful. But there are millions who got their jobs because either there wasn't anyone else, or because they performed well in a subordinate position and it was assumed they could manage others.

Watch out for those guys.

 

[miles]

This version has photgraphs in it so you can remember what your manager looks like while you do the review. Technology is wonderful

Shit. Where were these fucktards six months ago? I could have sold them something even more stupid for a hell of a lot more money.

 

[Amelie]

You guys are taking this WAY too seriously...

Hell, I know I have a job even after this week. But I have been there for a certain amount of hours now, so my daily production quota went up so now I need to print out everything I do per day and they check it and tell me that I am wonderful.



Well, at least that is the way it works in my dreams!!

 

[Merelan]

Gadzooks. Don't tell my company about any of these things. Somehow we have gotten to be a billion dollar company without all that shit. Our reviews are done as needed, constant evaluation, up to the managers. But double checked thrice a year by a higher up. To keep favorites from emerging.
My last one asked me why I seemed to favor some employees over others. I was honest, luckily I can be, and told him it was because they showed up on time and worked their tails off when I needed.
Yep, I favor favortism. My favorite employees are those that do what I pay them too.

I had heard about the anonymous ones. Not sure I like that. If what you have to say is valid and re3asonable then you should have to sign your name. I feel everyone has the right to face their "accuser" so to speak.

And adding a picture of them? Why would they be evaluating someone they don't know well enough to remember what they look like?
Holy Mother of God... is this the end of ....

Not sure where I am headed with that. Except the coffee pot for caffeine.

 

[Styphon]

Performance Reviews (or Staff Assessments, as they are known here) are a pain in the backside, and are conducted by employers because it gives them the false feeling they are in touch with their staff. I have had (and have had to give) so many of these in the 25 years I've been working, and most of them are just filed in the bin.

Mind you, I may be a bit cynical


Styphon

 

[Cheyenne]

Perfect timing for this thread- the performance reviews I have to write and give are sitting on my desk. Exactly where they have been sitting for a few weeks. I HATE doing these things!

I much rather talk to the people during the year and tell them if they are doing well or if there is something they need to work on. I start every review by saying there should be no surprises in the written form they are about to get because nothing written in there will be something I haven't already told them during the year.

Performance reviews are a pain in the ass. They are not fun on either side of the desk- giving or receiving (of course, my boss hasn't given me one in years.)