Well, the "bonus watch" down at Tedious Systems continues. Our boss, Randall "Bada" Bing is dragging out the notifications because he can. Since we are getting the checks on Friday, he probably ought to hurry every chance he gets.
For some time now I have been working on not getting all in a dither over stuff, but in this case it isn't working and I am getting ticked off at his delays. He will also be giving us our yearly evaluations, along with our bonus notifications. In the fantastic scenario that is running in my mind, things go badly...for me. Just say the last line of the senario is, You can't fire me, I quit!
Work performance evaluations are generally a waste of time. Over the past thirty-eight years I have had all sorts of them, mostly good, one or two bad, but they all share one thing, they were fairly meaningless, because for the most part bosses are too lazy to really know what the little folks are up to.
Now don't get me wrong here. By good and bad evaluations, I mean the boss mostly thought I was doing okay, not that the evaluations were done in a way that provided any useful information.
The first evaluation I can remember actually had a score for personal appearance. I got a below average. This old hillbilly from Dothan, Alabama, told me my appearance was below average. I stared at his white patent leather shoes in stunned silence. If they didn't like ugly, they shouldn't have hired me in the first place. Besides I am not sure what I was supposed to do about it.
My all time favorite evaluation was the year when the boss actually lined us up and told the first person she was outstanding, the next that she was more than satisfactory and told the rest of us that we were satisfactory. Then he said, "Write yourselves up." That was the whole process. I am not making that up.
These past few years my boss, now retired, would ask us for our input, write the evaluation and then review it with us in detail. She made an effort and was definitely more serious about the evaluations than most, even though she didn't think I was quite as swell as I did.
"Bada" Bing, on the other hand is pulling these evaluations directly out of his butt. He set no goals, didn't measure any results, as nearly as I can tell and didn't ask us for our input. These are strictly his opinion, which any HR person will tell you is not the best indicator of reality.
The best part of being an old crank is that I can make unlimited trouble over this, should it go against me. So I have started working on the first draft of my indignant letter to the higher-ups.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky
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3 comments:
mornin' Merle.
My last, totally incompetent administrator just copied my previous evaluation and had me sign it. That was fine with me, since she was an idiot, and my last evaluation was a good one.
Mr Bing has to earn his salary somehow and this is no doubt one of the many meaningless ways he achieves this!!
Does this make it clear what I think about performance evaluations??
Ms Soup
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