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When you take your lunch and your coworkers have jokes!!  

secret_lade 49F
14311 posts
2/25/2021 3:39 pm
When you take your lunch and your coworkers have jokes!!

I came back from lunch today to discover Joey staring very intently at me and Phoebe looking off in disgust.



I laughed so hard I was certain I was going to piss my pants.

God help me.... But I love those fucking googly eyes!

This may very well be my new thing.... I'm going to have to buy myself some googly eyes.

In other news...

I had my quarterly self review with Boss #2 today.

Ugh...

I think you all know from previous posts just how MUCH I love those things! I can't think of anything more rewarding than discussing my ability to manage ambiguity and facilitate communication during the trying times of a pandemic!

I managed to exceed every metric for training, hiring, and retention that I was being held accountable for...

so of course I only got a rating of 'Achieving Expectations' for my review.

I love it when your boss sits there and sings your praise and thanks you for all the amazing things you do for everyone each and every day and then slaps you in the face with....

Achieving Expectations.

That whole... 'There's no room for improvement' philosophy is bullshit.

I'm just going to leave it at that.

Happy Thursday!

topherific 61M
5209 posts
2/28/2021 7:57 pm

    Quoting secret_lade:
    I'm not sure how I'd feel about that thing staring up at me...
but you're thinking about it


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 5:28 pm

    Quoting  :

That's sad... But you are 100% accurate. I know for a fact that it's a numbers game as I see the numbers. A certain number of people can receive the top raise rate. (For my level of professionalism. I am lumped in with leadership staff.) Last year it was 3 people for our store. A certain number of people must be given the bottom raise rate. Last year it was 2 people. The rest got the median raise rate. Last year, it was corporate who decided who got what.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 5:17 pm

    Quoting pagancountrygirl:
    I've never understood the review process and how it's supposed to do anything other than annoy the piss out of the reviewee! If your boss is happy with your work and sings your praises to your face, then how the hell is "achieving expectations" supposed to convey that? Were they severely curtailed in the number of adjectives they could use in the review process? Achieving expectations makes it sound like you do the bare minimum to get the job done and then just....stop. You've met expectations, so why do more???
    Assholes.....
Oh I agree... That's my biggest frustration. Here's an even better one. The people that decide our raises are corporate. Someone I may or may not have ever met, someone who couldn't pick me out in a crowd is deciding what my worth is based on these reviews. Fucktastic!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 5:14 pm

    Quoting MyBaffies:
    Bought my niece a bag of assorted googly eyes for her birthday one year, she loved them.

    As for reviews, I despised them. We were graded 1-5 each year - 3 was doing your job and no more, 1 was better have your CV ready, 5 was exceptional.

    For one year I was awarded just a 2 which I objected to but they refused to change it. However, it didn't put me off and I kind of put the effort in the following year. At the end of year review, my line manager awarded me a 4. However when senior management got together to discuss all reviews, I was downgraded to a 3 as "You cannot go from a 2 to a 4 in one year". Show me where in the rules it says that? I left a year or so later.
The problem with a performance review is the majority of it is personal opinion, it is the personal opinion of whoever it is that is doing your review. I happen to have the misfortune of having to do 4 of these fucking things a year, one after each quarter. Even better, it's a self review where I have to talk to my strengths, weaknesses, and things I will do to improve upon for next quarter. I must also have, ready and waiting, one thing my boss can do to aid me in the development of my role. That one sucks....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 5:04 pm

    Quoting  :

They actually do have a training course our leadership staff has to take on employee and professional development standards. There's more to it than just effective evaluation of your employees, but that's the point of the class.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 5:01 pm

    Quoting topherific:
    i love googly eyes! how 'bout googly eyes on my cock
I'm not sure how I'd feel about that thing staring up at me...


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 4:58 pm

Oh my.... Ha ha ha ha ha This made me laugh!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/27/2021 4:58 pm

    Quoting hippiechick1967:
    We have 5 levels which go from incompetent to "Exceeds Professional Expectations." That's the one I always want to get, the one I always used to get until my supervisors were told to tone it down. The official reason was "to leave room for professional growth" but I call bullshit.
I call it bullshit too.


hippiechick1967 60F  
13154 posts
2/27/2021 10:36 am

We have 5 levels which go from incompetent to "Exceeds Professional Expectations." That's the one I always want to get, the one I always used to get until my supervisors were told to tone it down. The official reason was "to leave room for professional growth" but I call bullshit.

Elevate me...


citizen4722 66M  
74582 posts
2/26/2021 9:27 am

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HERE'S JOBSWORTH!!


topherific 61M
5209 posts
2/26/2021 7:15 am

i love googly eyes! how 'bout googly eyes on my cock


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:52 am

    Quoting lonlyforlove2:
    It is just like life, we all got to deal with them. Been a good while since I had one of those and the last one I got was as yours, " meets expectations" I turned in notice and never looked back.. I did work till I was 68, thought I had to, now I know I wasted several good years..
    Just grin and bear it. Smile and look ahead.. knowing that Boss #2 has to answer to some one!!! maybe he is in the same boat
    Just be safe, stay warm, although we almost got spring here this week.........
Once you get to a certain level of professional status... That rating becomes the norm no matter how well you perform your job. The three tiered rating system is just antiquated. It pisses me off that someone who just does the bare minimum in their job every day can be the same level of value as someone who busts her ass every day but can't be perceived as exceptional as there is no room for improvement in being exceptional. argh!!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:47 am

    Quoting TicklePlease:
    I carry a little tin of "emergency" adhesive googly eyes in my pocketbook...

    That's legit their name too!
OMG! I love it!!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:46 am

    Quoting positively4you:
    The reviews are rigged to raise you as little as possible if at all. Its all corporate bs. Unless you are a politician or a corporate biggie.
    The phrase” be happy you “have” job, just grinds my gears. No m’fer, be happy you have me in this job.
They are very lucky to have me in the job that I do... I'm a smart girl and I can handle people and situations well. Boss #2 even said yesterday that she was very happy with my work as she never has to worry about checking in on me or following up with expectations because she "knows I'll get it done". That is not the case with all of my peers.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:41 am

    Quoting mc_justmc:
    I wouldn't expect much from my supervisor, somehow I sent him an inappropriate text, TWICE in the last month. He says he's not going to do anything because he likes my work, but I don't see any promotions in my future, EVER.
Twice?? Yikes! You're lucky you still have a job.... So, now I have to ask. Naked body parts inappropriate? Or just explicit words inappropriate? Either way, I'd want to just die if I did something like that to Boss #2.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:38 am

    Quoting  :

I'll have to read this one a few times to get the full scope of the message....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:36 am

Happy Friday!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:35 am

    Quoting MrWrong4RghtNow:
    I never liked my reviews either. The only up side was that each time I got a review I was always bumped up into another pay scale. But in the end I was still underpaid.
Our raises aren't calculated until April. Even though I have to put myself through 4 quarterly self reviews every year, I only get 1 raise which is.... coincidently enough... not even during a quarterly review. Last year our raises were calculated by the corporate staff.

Yah... Cause THEY know what our work is like on a day to day basis.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/26/2021 3:30 am

    Quoting lindoboy100:
    Now McLade, in your quest for the googlies, just remember we poor fellas who think your eyes are quite gorgeous as they are!!

    Your staff review sounds like a load of nonsense.......sometimes we do it only for the love of the job I guess!
You're always so kind to me... There are 5 leaders and myself who report directly to Boss #2, we all get the same rating every time. It's just how it is. She's the top dog, in charge of the whole kit and caboodle... So we can't really complain, either.


MyBaffies 54M
4983 posts
2/26/2021 3:03 am

Bought my niece a bag of assorted googly eyes for her birthday one year, she loved them.

As for reviews, I despised them. We were graded 1-5 each year - 3 was doing your job and no more, 1 was better have your CV ready, 5 was exceptional.

For one year I was awarded just a 2 which I objected to but they refused to change it. However, it didn't put me off and I kind of put the effort in the following year. At the end of year review, my line manager awarded me a 4. However when senior management got together to discuss all reviews, I was downgraded to a 3 as "You cannot go from a 2 to a 4 in one year". Show me where in the rules it says that? I left a year or so later.

Baffies

Link to my blog: MyBaffies


lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
2/26/2021 12:51 am

Now McLade, in your quest for the googlies, just remember we poor fellas who think your eyes are quite gorgeous as they are!!

Your staff review sounds like a load of nonsense.......sometimes we do it only for the love of the job I guess!


MrWrong4RghtNow 57M
2439 posts
2/26/2021 12:35 am

I never liked my reviews either. The only up side was that each time I got a review I was always bumped up into another pay scale. But in the end I was still underpaid.

My name is MrWrong and I approved this comment


lok4fun500 M
51906 posts
2/25/2021 8:21 pm


mc_justmc 63M

2/25/2021 6:40 pm

I wouldn't expect much from my supervisor, somehow I sent him an inappropriate text, TWICE in the last month. He says he's not going to do anything because he likes my work, but I don't see any promotions in my future, EVER.


positively4you 74F  
4605 posts
2/25/2021 6:24 pm

The reviews are rigged to raise you as little as possible if at all. Its all corporate bs. Unless you are a politician or a corporate biggie.
The phrase” be happy you “have” job, just grinds my gears. No m’fer, be happy you have me in this job.


TicklePlease 56F  
13851 posts
2/25/2021 6:24 pm

I carry a little tin of "emergency" adhesive googly eyes in my pocketbook...

That's legit their name too!


lonlyforlove2 81M  
32704 posts
2/25/2021 6:01 pm

It is just like life, we all got to deal with them. Been a good while since I had one of those and the last one I got was as yours, " meets expectations" I turned in notice and never looked back.. I did work till I was 68, thought I had to, now I know I wasted several good years..
Just grin and bear it. Smile and look ahead.. knowing that Boss #2 has to answer to some one!!! maybe he is in the same boat
Just be safe, stay warm, although we almost got spring here this week.........

Stop by at lonlyforlove2
also see Lunch with Lonly , we get snow tomorrow
Check my blog on New Community, "A photo of my big Pecker"
also, " My Sunday afternoon with the kids'


pagancountrygirl 66F
6466 posts
2/25/2021 5:36 pm

I've never understood the review process and how it's supposed to do anything other than annoy the piss out of the reviewee! If your boss is happy with your work and sings your praises to your face, then how the hell is "achieving expectations" supposed to convey that? Were they severely curtailed in the number of adjectives they could use in the review process? Achieving expectations makes it sound like you do the bare minimum to get the job done and then just....stop. You've met expectations, so why do more???
Assholes.....

Pagan
Hmmmm....I know I left that wand around here somewhere!


CUMHANDLEME 61F  
794 posts
2/25/2021 5:10 pm

Gotta love those type of reviews ...

Do you have any Primal Urges ... I do, please CUMHANDLEME and explore some of my naughty and nice Primal ... Urges with me !!!


boobwhisperer69 61M  
8322 posts
2/25/2021 4:31 pm

Makes you want to slap the shit out of him doesn't it!!!! And then they wonder why people leave?


bbuckwwheat 65M
6265 posts
2/25/2021 4:18 pm

I have experience with rating systems similar to achieving expectations. Exceeding expectations in my systems required that you had goals that could be achieved in that category. For example, employee retention for 1 year is over 90% to exceed expectations, with 80 to 90 being the achieving expectation.

That said, I am not sure that retention is solely your responsibility unless it is for the employees that you directly supervise. I can see that if you are making job offers that you have a part of retention, but what happens when a supervisor and an employee do not come anywhere near the loose mesh needed to keep the employee?

And how about an update on the woman that you hired recently that had the positive attitude amid setbacks that left both parents jobless?

Private mailbox at my blog bbuckwwheat
Fayette, Iowa


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
2/25/2021 3:41 pm

I came back from lunch today to discover Joey staring very intently at me and Phoebe looking off in disgust.

I laughed so hard I was certain I was going to piss my pants.

God help me.... But I love those fucking googly eyes!

This may very well be my new thing.... I'm going to have to buy myself some googly eyes.

In other news...

I had my quarterly self review with Boss #2 today.

Ugh...

I think you all know from previous posts just how MUCH I love those things! I can't think of anything more rewarding than discussing my ability to manage ambiguity and facilitate communication during the trying times of a pandemic!

I managed to exceed every metric for training, hiring, and retention that I was being held accountable for...

so of course I only got a rating of 'Achieving Expectations' for my review.

I love it when your boss sits there and sings your praise and thanks you for all the amazing things you do for everyone each and every day and then slaps you in the face with....

Achieving Expectations.

That whole... 'There's no room for improvement' philosophy is bullshit.

I'm just going to leave it at that.

Happy Thursday!


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