When I originally received this assessment as part of my annual review I was pretty confused, so I questioned my manager in my face to face. How was it possible that in EVERY area I seemed to have met or exceeded my goals and objectives, and yet overall I received a middling result?! My manager’s response was this: “Don’t read too much into the paper based assessment, I have absolutely no problem with your work, you are a standout employee but to fit in with the company bell curve structure, we simply can’t award anymore 5′s in your area this round. It won’t affect you in future performance reviews.” This is absolute rubbish! So what they’re telling me is that basically, I can do everything right, put in the extra 10% and in the company’s eyes, I’ll still only be as good as the guy in the cubicle next to me that spends half the day on the phone arguing with his wife instead of working!! I’m outa here!



(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)