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With the stack ranking system they got here, they make it unnecessarily stressfull. My boss and everyone else is so stressed out during appraisals week. And a

• commandlinefan 9y ago
  I haven't been at the job I have long enough to have been through a performance appraisal yet, but every job I've had prior to this worked the same way: they demand that I set "goals" for myself early in the year and don't give me any specific guidance about what sort of goals they're looking for, so I put together a set of what I think are reasonable goals based on the priorities I'm aware of at the time (taking in to account that I know that new things will come up in the course of the year). Then my completely unqualified, self-serving, low-level middle manager looks at my goals, says, "these are bad goals", writes up a new, impossible set of goals based on the project-of-the-day (his goals, of course, are so vague that it would be impossible to ever say that he didn't reach them), requires that I agree to them, and then gives me a negative performance appraisal at the end of the period because I didn't achieve them (mostly because the priorities have completely changed in the last 12 months so that none of the ridiculous goals he made up for me make sense any more). But then, after my negative review, I get a standard cost of living increase, they keep me on, give me more responsibility, and then are genuinely shocked and disappointed when I leave for a better paying job.