loss of motivation after poor job performance review. How to deal with it?

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jingramm

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I report to three people. Unfortunately, the highest level person I rarely interacted with and doesn't really seem to like me (things got off on the wrong foot). The other two I have been breaking my back for. I work til around 7PM each night when people leave by 5:30 and I have honestly been working hard. However, on the job performance review, it is completely overshadowed by some negative comments by the highest level person on not being communicative and basically not promotion ready. This promotion was a goal of mine and it is very unlikely to happen based on her comments.

There's a feeling of betrayal. I worked hard during my time here making sure all my deadlines were met. The negative comments were from events that happened one or two times and it overshadows the months I've been here. I have a loss of motivation. What's the point of working hard when it doesn't even get noticed and I should just leave at normal time like most people. I realized that my supervisor reviews harshly while others have the luck with working under easy-going people who strives to help them achieve success. I don't feel the motivation anymore. Any advice?
 
joesmoke

joesmoke

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dont work for longer than youre being paid for. it lowers your wages and makes you seem like a pushover.
 
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Raincity

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I have traveled down that road a few times. This is something that you have to really feel out. I lost a job once bringing the issue to my superior that did the eval. Two other times it worked out because management decided to get more feedback from my immediate supervisors to be objective.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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my last review I had was pretty bad and it was even worse because i had expected to receive a good review because I did a great job (at least i thought and to my knowledge). however my manager always had something out against me and I don't know why.

that said I am at a new job now and like it TOONNSSSS more than i liked my old job. it was sad too because after i found my new job i switched managers, and while waiting for my clearance to go through, i really liked working for my new manager.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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joesmoke said:
i would at least stay til i found another one. dont just say FML n quit
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yea look for a new job and quit once you have it no lock.

a new start at somewhere else may be exactly what you need.

i too felt underapperciated at my previous job. even little 'atta boys' and stuff i rarely got. at my new job when i do a good job i am commended for it. hell today i fixed 3 bugs and my manager gave me a pat on the back so to say.

on top of that i am getting paid 25% more than i previously was, have a clearance, work on flex hours, can take the train to work so my car gets like 25 miles total a week now, and am learning SSSSSOOOOO much more now.

at my old job all i did was C++ and use old ass systems that had been around for ages.

over here in 3 months i've been doing java (mainly java, 90% of stuff is java), sql, xml, and touched on some ruby.
 
PricklyPete

PricklyPete

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To be honest I have not been in the same situation where I got feedback from a review like that. I have been in the situation where I have not liked my superiors and felt they were holding me back. To keep me motivated, I would actually work harder and try to learn more with the idea that it will help me find a better job where I can move on from these people. This is always worked for me in either winning the favor of the people I didn't get along with or opening up opportunities I wouldn't have unearthed otherwise.
 
Platypus

Platypus

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GlacierFreeze said:
That's always bad advice, even if the economy wasn't still crappy.
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Why is it bad advice?

Better advice in your mind would be to... ?
1) stay in a job where he's clearly unappreciated
2) stagnate his growth abilities by staying in a job where no promotion can happen
 
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LordMorpheus

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Platypus said:
Why is it bad advice?

Better advice in your mind would be to... ?
1) stay in a job where he's clearly unappreciated
2) stagnate his growth abilities by staying in a job where no promotion can happen
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It's bad advice because it might be hard / take a while to find a new job.

The good version of that advice was already given:
Start looking for a new job, but keep your current one until you have a new one lined up.
 
Platypus

Platypus

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GlacierFreeze said:
Because you made it sound like he should quit before he gets another job.
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That would be patently retarded... I didn't think I'd really need to make that distinction but apparently I do.

edit: wow, ok so apparently I do need to make that distinction because two people thought the same thing.
 
Modelworks

Modelworks

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You are living to work instead of working to live. The last century we have gone from a culture that worked so we could have a decent life, to one where we have become obsessed with things , positions , careers to achieve some fictional goal we create for ourselves which we may never reach. All those years living are wasted. It is the 'if I can just get xxxx I will be happy' way of thinking and it never leads to a good place.
 
SpatiallyAware

SpatiallyAware

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Platypus said:
That would be patently retarded... I didn't think I'd really need to make that distinction but apparently I do.

edit: wow, ok so apparently I do need to make that distinction because two people thought the same thing.
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It's Anandtech, the forum where every post is over-analyzed by the same 20 trolls looking to pick apart ridiculous details. You should know this by now..
 
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