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I had my 6 month performance review today, and I was blown away at just how inaccurate and biased it was.
When my boss gave me the examples he had of my "glaring flaws", they were single occurrences, such as being 20 minutes late after having my schedule changed THE DAY PRIOR without being informed of the change and that I don't "thank customers for their patronage". Basically, a bunch of generalizations and a few one time errors.
I was told that I'm only occasionally helpful with customers, that I'm not dependable, and that I do poor quality work. The report claimed that I have the potential to be a great employee, but those are "very rare occurrences".
Any other employee below management would say otherwise, as would the vast majority of customers I deal with, and I've had quite a few say to my other bosses that I had been extremely helpful and attentive to their needs.
I want to take this to HR and claim that the whole review is exaggerated and inaccurate, but I don't know what kind of grounds I could really base it off of.
What I do know is, by the time I had reached the final summary on the review sheet, I was about ready to just grab my coat and leave. There was no objective criticism. It was essentially just 30 minutes of my boss telling me how bad of a job I do without explaining why he feels that way.
The biggest problem here lies in the fact that I only work with him maybe 2 out of every 5 days I work, and on top of that, management doesn't see 95% of the work that I actually do. They can't be objective if they don't get the majority of the picture, which they haven't done.
I'm thoroughly frustrated at the whole experience, and I feel even more discouraged about my job because I've been lumped with a list of "you suck" and no clear way to improve.
I don't know if anyone else hates performance reviews, but the rest of the internet seems to think that it's fairly common to hate these things.
When my boss gave me the examples he had of my "glaring flaws", they were single occurrences, such as being 20 minutes late after having my schedule changed THE DAY PRIOR without being informed of the change and that I don't "thank customers for their patronage". Basically, a bunch of generalizations and a few one time errors.
I was told that I'm only occasionally helpful with customers, that I'm not dependable, and that I do poor quality work. The report claimed that I have the potential to be a great employee, but those are "very rare occurrences".
Any other employee below management would say otherwise, as would the vast majority of customers I deal with, and I've had quite a few say to my other bosses that I had been extremely helpful and attentive to their needs.
I want to take this to HR and claim that the whole review is exaggerated and inaccurate, but I don't know what kind of grounds I could really base it off of.
What I do know is, by the time I had reached the final summary on the review sheet, I was about ready to just grab my coat and leave. There was no objective criticism. It was essentially just 30 minutes of my boss telling me how bad of a job I do without explaining why he feels that way.
The biggest problem here lies in the fact that I only work with him maybe 2 out of every 5 days I work, and on top of that, management doesn't see 95% of the work that I actually do. They can't be objective if they don't get the majority of the picture, which they haven't done.
I'm thoroughly frustrated at the whole experience, and I feel even more discouraged about my job because I've been lumped with a list of "you suck" and no clear way to improve.
I don't know if anyone else hates performance reviews, but the rest of the internet seems to think that it's fairly common to hate these things.