Anybody else hate doing their own performance evaluations?

[johnjbruin]

I gotta do this stuff and then go over it with my manager in the next couple of weeks.

It will determine my raise for next year so I need to do a decent job on it.

So who else hates doing these?

 

[pyonir]

"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

I was thinking of that too

 

[Drakkon]

I did mine last week...increddibly stupid imho. And then to ahve to talk to manager a couple days later so he gives me his opinion is even more fun...nothing like a day of letting you know all the things you could improve that really couldn't improve unless he did HIS job better...

the funny one on mine was there was a rate your technical competnecy "1 to 10"...I'm the sys admin along with the programmer...just for fun i put a 2 down...everyone else at company put a 7/8...so yeah when came time to "talk" about it i said obviously these things are bs cause if everyone can do my job 4x times better I'd liek to see u make it a week without me...good thing they have a good sense of humor

 

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

hahha

 

[midwestfisherman]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I did mine last week...increddibly stupid imho. And then to ahve to talk to manager a couple days later so he gives me his opinion is even more fun...nothing like a day of letting you know all the things you could improve that really couldn't improve unless he did HIS job better...

LOL....my thoughts exactly!

 

[StageLeft]

Utterly detestable activity. I've done a few of them now and abhor every single minute, line, and word of it.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

That's what I put on mine and then I photocopy a bunch up because I am to damn lazy to fill it out every year

Ausm

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Ausm

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

That's what I put on mine and then I photocopy a bunch up because I am to damn lazy to fill it out every year

Ausm

LMAO

 

[bunker]

We're still oldschool..we don't evaluate ourselves, our bosses do.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: Ausm

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

That's what I put on mine and then I photocopy a bunch up because I am to damn lazy to fill it out every year

Ausm

haha. Ours are online. Damn it - can't be lazy about it.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: bunker
We're still oldschool..we don't evaluate ourselves, our bosses do.

Its like you do it yourself - and then they will do it anyway afterwards. So why not just make them do it?

 

[SilverTorch]

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

nah.
put the truth down on the paper.

my review was back in August, I wrote up a self performance review and I was honest about it, I knew where I lacked and what I needed to improve.

my boss went over his review of me, and my review pretty much matched his (areas where I was good and areas where I needed to improve), after that he told me that I was getting a raise

 

[Armitage]

At my company you write up a summary of your accomplishjments for the year that your boss has to sign off on. Boss does the actual eval though.

The Air Force system is particularly absurd ... OPRs (Officer Performance Report) are so firewalled & wordsmithed that they are practically useless. A "meets expectations" rather then "exceeds expectations" is the kiss of death ... I doin't think I ever heard of somebody getting one, even the complete fvck-ups. Hopefully it's better in the operational commands, but in acquisition it was useless.

edit - just got my raise notice yesterday. 3.6% I was hoping for 4%, but apparently the raise pool was only 3.5%, and I'm close to maxing out at my level (boss said a promotion is in the pipeline though )

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: SilverTorch

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

nah.
put the truth down on the paper.

my review was back in August, I wrote up a self performance review and I was honest about it, I knew where I lacked and what I needed to improve.

my boss went over his review of me, and my review pretty much matched his (areas where I was good and areas where I needed to improve), after that he told me that I was getting a raise

See - as Armitage mentioned - a 'meets expectations' is the kiss of death. so you cant really be truthful.

 

[jagec]

Self-performance evaluations are quite possibly the most worthless things in business. They mean NOTHING WHATSOEVER. Basing anything meaningful, like a raise, on what someone writes about themself is Stupid (yes, that's a capital S).

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin

Originally posted by: SilverTorch

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

nah.
put the truth down on the paper.

my review was back in August, I wrote up a self performance review and I was honest about it, I knew where I lacked and what I needed to improve.

my boss went over his review of me, and my review pretty much matched his (areas where I was good and areas where I needed to improve), after that he told me that I was getting a raise

See - as Armitage mentioned - a 'meets expectations' is the kiss of death. so you cant really be truthful.

In Air Force Systems command it was/is. But if you have a sane evaluation system & corporate culture it's not. In my current and previous civilian jobs, evaluations were very objective ... a firewalled eval would likely get sent back. Tended to be a bit of culture shock for guys coming out of 20 years in the Air Force who never had anything detrimental said about them on an official eval. See SilverTorch's comment.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: Armitage

Originally posted by: johnjbruin

Originally posted by: SilverTorch

Originally posted by: pyonir
"Exceeds Expectations" on everything.

nah.
put the truth down on the paper.

my review was back in August, I wrote up a self performance review and I was honest about it, I knew where I lacked and what I needed to improve.

my boss went over his review of me, and my review pretty much matched his (areas where I was good and areas where I needed to improve), after that he told me that I was getting a raise

See - as Armitage mentioned - a 'meets expectations' is the kiss of death. so you cant really be truthful.

In Air Force Systems command it was/is. But if you have a sane evaluation system & corporate culture it's not. In my current and previous civilian jobs, evaluations were very objective ... a firewalled eval would likely get sent back. Tended to be a bit of culture shock for guys coming out of 20 years in the Air Force who never had anything detrimental said about them on an official eval. See SilverTorch's comment.

I guess it totally depends on your work culture then. Looking at my checkbox selection, I have 2 for Far E.E., 5 for E.E., and 3 for M.E.

Now I need to go write summaries for all of them.

 

[Megatomic]

Our are due in May. Our evals are official in October. It's a weird schedule...

The truly strange thing about my self-eval is that it looks nearly identical to the one my manager turns in for me.

 

[johnjbruin]

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