Have you had the experience where you have exceeded expectations, and yet...?

Question

your "boss" found negatives to weigh against you in a review to keep from rewarding you as much as you truly deserve?

Answer 1

Totally, I think its because they just cant handle giving credit where credit is due x

Answer 2

First of all periodic reviews are intended to be very objective and factual. If your boss found out negative stuff about it - you could validate this and explain your side. Performance appraisal is a good venue for you to defend yourself and at the same time highlight your good performance. Enumerate your "job well done" work assignments, your self initiated improvements in your current post and how others benefited from your endeavour.

I used to have my performance appraisal from different bosses and I realise that you need to be very equipped in defending yourself. You must have documents to prove your claim that you deserve something more rewarding. Assertiveness is an important key here. Its your own career that's at stake. Your boss would only now the overall performance. But you need to furnish him the Mitty-gritty details of what you did and how well you did them.

Performance appraisals are vital if you are aspiring for promotion or better salary enhancement. I usually prepare ahead of time to ensure I will be able to justify and defend myself when performance review comes.

Answer 3

The best thing to combat this is to ask for an interim review say a few months before the real thing so that you can discuss how things are going and make sure you know what's expected of you and the likely outcome of your real review. You can make any changes necessary before then and it means your boss will be more aware of what you're doing.

Answer 4

Some bosses operate from the idea that there is no perfect ,
That there is always room for improvement ,
And if they don't enumerate the negatives ,
The employee will be a slacker by the next go round .

Some bosses hang a carrot for you to chase ,
Others stand behind with a whip .

Welcome to life on planet earth .

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Answer 5

Yes! My company reviews its employees annually, and last year I switched positions half-way through the year and therefore had two different managers, but my manager for the second half conducted my review by herself.

My first manager used to set me very unrealistic targets which meant I often had to put extra hours in (but I'm not complaining; it was a mindless job so you could just take the work home and do it in front of the telly) and I said this to my second manager in the appraisal.

In her write-up of the review, this translated to "Cari sets unrealistic targets for herself, resulting in the need to work much longer hours than necessary." WTF????

Answer 6

They always have & always will !

Isn't it amazing how they can usually give you a pat on the back about something during the year but that is usually forgotten come review time ?

We had a worse situation where our State literally blitzed our budgets , growth , all of the industry benchmarks yet we missed out on bonuses because the national targets were not met ....the slackers in other states dragged us down with them ! grrrr!

Answer 7

Yes. I had an appraisal where my boss was eventually forced to admit he didn't know what I had achieved - just knew that life was easier with me around! I left 2 months later.

Answer 8

Yes! I worked for a firm that fired me for not being a team player as I refused to talk to anyone and just got on with my job. I would like to add that my output surpassed everyone.

Answer 9

Yeah I hate my boss, he is really full of bullsh1t like that

Answer 10

Yes, sadly this is the way things work.