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I have my review and “goal” setting bullshit with my boss this morning. So I’ve got that going for me. . .
I hope the HR person that invented all the goal setting BS walks into a field of dicks backwards. HR people have no time to properly sift through CV's of aplicants so you get shit assistants but yay set goals
I have my review and “goal” setting bullshit with my boss this morning. So I’ve got that going for me. . .
slept like shit and my brain isn't working, fml
no workout and I am virtually useless right now...
no workout and I am virtually useless right now...
Crippling anxiety today. If it isn't work related, it's life related, and if it isn't life related, my brain makes up all new fun things to sow the seeds of doubt. Why mind, why are you like this.
they say that there will be a yellow orb in the sky today. Double shot of espresso ain't cutting it so I guess I will make some more. Working a 7 to 3 shift..YAY
Doggo woke us up 15 minutes before the 5:00 AM alarm. Thanks, dog. Dog has bronchitis and the worst part about that is that we can't send her to day care until that clears up. Poor thing is going a little stir crazy lately.
Anyway, I dragged myself to the pool for a 2600 yard swim. No hot water in the showers, so no pre or post-swim rinse for me.
Anyway, I dragged myself to the pool for a 2600 yard swim. No hot water in the showers, so no pre or post-swim rinse for me.
So, I have recently received three emails from Megan at the Toyota dealership wanting to know if I am interested in trading in my Rav4. It’s a 2022 with 5k miles and she wants to get me in something newer ? It hasn’t even had it’s first oil change. WTF Megan ?
Had to chisel a few millimeters of ice off the car this morning. Joy.
Finally have my sleep study scheduled for tonight, so that is good.
And now work and coffee.
I fear this same crap is coming up.
I have my review and “goal” setting bullshit with my boss this morning. So I’ve got that going for me. . .
HR of course sent out 1.3 trillion emails at the end of last year asking to complete our yearly self reviews and goals. I did. Don't think anyone read them or looked. Which is why I type a few words and click that nice completed button.
We should get OT for that type of jazz!
respond back and asking megan if she's interested in getting something else in
Can you profit from it somehow?
Back in the days of yore during the pandemic, people were getting away with that. A buddy purchased a loaded Chevy Silverado, drove it for a year and then traded it back in for more than what he purchased it for.
What, like a corolla?
re: goals for the year.
i can't do mine just yet, I have to wait for my functional group's goals to cascade down from upper management first
i can't do mine just yet, I have to wait for my functional group's goals to cascade down from upper management first
same- our review process kicked off after thanksgiving and it's not done yet. Goals can't be handed down until the board does their thing, so we just keep grinding...re: goals for the year.
i can't do mine just yet, I have to wait for my functional group's goals to cascade down from upper management first
my 2022 self evaluation had to be submitted in september.
lolmy 2022 self evaluation had to be submitted in september.
my wife gets a kick out of how long our process is taking. There's a part of me that likes that it takes so long, so there's no rush. Part of me would rather phone it in and be done with it
Self review: Did what needed to be done with/for the team in a planful and sensible fashion.
Had to chisel a few millimeters of ice off the car this morning. Joy.
Finally have my sleep study scheduled for tonight, so that is good.
And now work and coffee.
I fear this same crap is coming up.
HR of course sent out 1.3 trillion emails at the end of last year asking to complete our yearly self reviews and goals. I did. Don't think anyone read them or looked. Which is why I type a few words and click that nice completed button.
We should get OT for that type of jazz!
Goals: Continue in the same fashion.
Basically.
And always have to put something in the review as something that can be easily be improved upon. Kind of like purposely underdelivering (while not necessarily not reaching your goals), so that the next year you can over deliver on results?
Ah, if only. I've only ever had managers that insist on making stretch goals. I usually figure I'll achieve 50% with the rest being an exercise in "tell me what you did and not what you didn't do".
They set you up for failure? What kind of goals are those?
Pay raises are already processed for this year before we've even done appraisals for last year, making them even more pointless.
Fucked if I know. One of those shit flows downhill scenarios where executive bonuses are tied to achieving aspirational performance targets and all the peons then get tasked with making it happen, realistic or not. There's only so much I, as an individual, can contribute to helping the business as a whole achieve its goals, but that seldom gets in the way of expectations.They set you up for failure? What kind of goals are those?
To some degree I get it though, people need to be challenged. Give someone a week to do a task and it'll be done a week. Give them 4 days to do that same task and they'll likely deliver in 4. Don't ask and you won't receive.
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What kind of real world mpg do you get? Gonna have to give my company truck back in a few weeks when I quit and was looking at a vehicle with decent MPGs.
Our goals have a weird (I think) rating system:
D - keep it up and you're probably going to get fired eventually
C - bottom of the pack, but useful
B - not bad, not good
A - do exactly what is expected of you
AA - exceed expectations
AAA - exceed expectations that result in "business changing" results
Qualitative goals for A, AA & AAA targets are explicitly listed, and bonus/raise increase amounts are tied to each as well.
D - keep it up and you're probably going to get fired eventually
C - bottom of the pack, but useful
B - not bad, not good
A - do exactly what is expected of you
AA - exceed expectations
AAA - exceed expectations that result in "business changing" results
Qualitative goals for A, AA & AAA targets are explicitly listed, and bonus/raise increase amounts are tied to each as well.
Welp, didn’t get fired. So that’s good. Not that I assumed it would be bad.
We actually have a good team at the moment and things are going well. Still trying to push my boss(also owns the joint) how much he wants for the place. Not that I dreamed of owning an insurance agency but I’ve had worse jobs.
We actually have a good team at the moment and things are going well. Still trying to push my boss(also owns the joint) how much he wants for the place. Not that I dreamed of owning an insurance agency but I’ve had worse jobs.
(Self) Performance review time here too. I will be giving myself 5/5 in all categories. At the same time I will point out the that all of the essay style questions in the review are the same as the last 3 years. I will also be pointing out the thundering irony of the question about my contribution to innovation in this context.
Corporate shills gonna shill…gotta shill…that house next door to Woo ain’t gonna pay for itself.
Corporate shills gonna shill…gotta shill…that house next door to Woo ain’t gonna pay for itself.
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Annual reviews are a thing that exist on paper here, but very rarely exist in practice. I think I had one 4 or 5 years ago, maybe? New boss this year, so I suspect we will be jumping through that hoop again until he figures out that no one actually cares.
That’s a tough one, I think, for a lot of management. Make the carrot too easy to get and you worry about underperformance. Crack the whip too hard and people will just say fuck off and quit.
Around here management has definitely got it wrong. The folks who perform well each year are given extra burdens until they realize that they are being punished for succeeding. Eventually these folks look around and realize that the people who are just coasting aren’t getting kicked to the curb. The overloaded previously high performance employees then say fuck it, kick the clutch and slip into neutral.
Two of our best performers over the last two years confided in me that this is exactly what they are doing for 2023…I laughed and said welcome aboard…
30 mpg combined. Sometimes better. And mine is non-hybrid and front wheel drive. Get s about 100 miles more per tank than my Element with roughly similar fuel capacity.
Basically everything that's wrong about performance goals in most corporations.