Please, read this and believe it.
I mostly knit, sometimes crochet or cross-stitch. I read, a lot. I love cats. I love hockey, especially my no-longer-local team, the Boston Bruins. Want more? Read on.
I mostly knit, sometimes crochet or cross-stitch. I read, a lot. I love cats. I love hockey, especially my no-longer-local team, the Boston Bruins. Want more? Read on.
Why do they do this.
ReplyDeleteYears ago my husband's then-employer decided to do something else: have each employee say in detail why someone else was doing particularly well and should get a thank-you bonus for it.
Never dreaming that they might, y'know, talk to each other.
Lee nominated Richard. Richard nominated Lee. Both of them got the bonus. Pointy-haired boss gathered everybody around and read the recommendations out loud so as to, y'know, entice more let's-live-up-to-this rah rah rahs.
It wasn't till the other employees started quietly cracking up and stifling giggles that it slowly dawned on the guy mid-sentence what they had done. And why wouldn't anybody, since the bonus wasn't limited to one person. They could all have cheered each other on, and next year they would--except somehow that never got offered to them again.
Edit "each employee" in the first sentence there--it was, is there someone you particularly admire for what they've accomplished. And they did, in fact, so that was honest on their part.
ReplyDeleteWhat a ridiculous waste of your time! We had to fill out copious paperwork before getting observed in the classroom. It showed nothing about the kind of teacher I was--just busywork! They employ us; they don't OWN us.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes think they forget that. Or they think we care passionately about the company, which: no.
DeleteWe have to put goals in there, but my boss doesn't even care what those goals are. It makes me laugh as I cut and paste the same goals every year.
ReplyDeleteI definitely base mine on the year before's. We had to do this process in Dec/Jan, and then in Feb they were all, we're using a new software thing, enter your goals again, and I just hit the wall. Fortunately, it seems like my boss may be able to transfer them over. If I have to go through this one more time...
DeletePreach. I hate this shit. (I mean, if they want me to say why I should get a promotion, maybe…but just my same salary? Or a Cost of Living Raise? You know my work. Bah.)
ReplyDeleteRight? Enough already.
DeleteOMG, this is probably THE thing I miss least now that I’m retired. I HATED doing those.
ReplyDeleteIn my position, it is a total waste of time. I don't want to move up, I just want to do what I'm doing. Leave me to do it.
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