Wish me luck..!

good luck “our man”.. I had my appraisal a few weeks ago and was nervous as sh*te, but came out smelling ok.

Good luck Tom!

Don’t let ’em see the fear in your eyes 😉

Seriously – good luck

Well, that was fun. Not.

I still have a job, but increasingly I know it’s one I don’t want. Sadly, there are none out there for me to go to. So, I’ll have to pull my finger out for 12 months and see if I can make more of this one.

Oh well, at least it’s over for another year. I guess in your line of work no one’s recruiting at the moment.

I have my consultancy meeting on Monday, not really looking forward to that much.

Yeah, shouldn’t really grumble Mrs F. It’s frustrating to have received no support for 12 months and then be told it’s my fault. And breathe.

Hope the consultation goes well (as well as can be expected, anyway).

It’s frustrating to have received no support for 12 months and then be told it’s my fault.

pretty much par for the course in most places, I have found.

Well, I have resolved to be proactive…

I’ve just phoned a recruiter about another job..!

🙂

pretty much par for the course in most places, I have found.

Yes, I was particularly pleased* to note that, in spite of the recent messages from senior management about financial performance, my being the top performer in my team on this appeared to count for absolutely nothing. Tells me all I need to know.

*this may amount to sarcasm.

All good then 😯

I’ve just finshed a 2 year contract having been farmed out to work for a NGO (that does train stuff) and am now back in an office with not much to do. I’m just counting the days till I get an email about consultation. We had a big presentation a month ago about how the company will try hard to retrain people into new work streams and related career paths etc etc if they end up in my sort of position. I will be pleasantly surprised if they try. Still loads more time to stare out the windows and look at the sunshine.

yeah, same for GF 🙁

Proactive is good, though, I am doing a bit of that too.

Your boss would appear to be a very good illustration of the Peter Principal in action.

It’s frustrating to have received no support for 12 months and then be told it’s my fault.

Hijack…

My wife has just lost her job that she’s had for a year due to her boss saying she didn’t do her job well enough. Trouble is he didn’t have the knowledge to support her and told her not to get help from another manager who could have helped seemingly as he didn’t want to lose face. When he decided my wife’s under performance reflected badly on him he arranged a meeting with HR as a 1st step to get her out; in the end it seems they decided that my wife wasn’t really to blame and suggested she take 3 months salary (tax free for some reason) and leave as they didn’t think it was a good idea for her to carry on working for her boss. Seems a bit unfair to me as she essentially got forced out.

Stick with it, mrsf, there’ll be something just round the corner. 😀

mudshark – that’s a story we all hear frustratingly often; I feel for mrs mudshark there. I work for people in both the office I’m located in, and across the country. I have mainly worked for the latter in the last 12 months, meaning that the judgement of those in my office is based on assumption only and not direct experience.

Right now, though my contract provides for 4 months’ notice, I’d take three months tax free and walk….

Hope mrs mudshark finds a suitable replacment soon.

Ah yes, I remember the joys of the annual appraisal.

It sometimes was ok, but all I really was interested in was what the pay deal was. The rest was mostly bullshit, far removed from my actual performance. Sometimes it was very negative, sometimes very positive, but rarely accurate. A farce!

Throughout the 90’s recession, the “tuppence hapeny” company I worked for gave us little or nothing in the way of pay increases. They made dubious claims that they were paying above market rates. In fact they were taking advantage of an average figure for my function, not the factoring in our specialist skills which were in the top quartile. They were arrogant enough to think we’d buy their bullshit, but then as it was a recession……

My annual appraisals have mostly been an opportunity for my boss to replay a list of all the things he perceived I had done wrong throughout the year, but had failed to mention to me until that stage. In the end, I lost it with him. If these issues were worth recording, surely they were worth dealing with at the time!? The stupid man had no management skill whatsoever and reckoned he could pull rank on me, just because he was my boss! I totally lost respect for the guy and it got to the point where we’d get into a row. In the end, they needed me more than I needed them. They were getting a superb deal out of me. It was a pleasure to leave there and poach three of their other disgruntled employees. The new company paid me £3k a pop – a nice little earner! Did I feel guilty? NO!

My advice to anyone who feels routinely put down, is to find another job, but make it very clear why you left some months after settling into your new job.

Don’t leave it for the 7 years that i did and where you become bitter and twisted.

I have declined “exit” interviews a couple of times since then. I am so full of contempt for the “let’s find out what we could do better” meeting just before you exit the building! Like they didn’t already know!

If you can start up your own business and have enough contacts and customers, this is the only way to go. It’s a tough world, but better than being dangled by a thread, by a bully employer who uses the perpetually present veiled threat of dropkicking you out the door with only a moment’s notice.

My boss emailed me today for first time in 7 weeks (some might say thats a great thing) he wants to do a 1/4 review next week, the week before we have our team meeting. I asked the 3 other guys in the team if they were getting one as well…..no was the answer.
This will be our 1st team meeting of the year and my 1st 1/4 review of the year, maths don’t appear to be a strong point of the boss despite being the sales “manager”.
We normally only have contact with him when the sales figures are poor for the month, other than that there is not much in the way of support or advice, I’m guessing the review is happening as a result of 2 months of sales at only 70% of target.
I figured I’d be ok til Christmas, I’m starting to fear the worst….