Some experts said it couldn’t be done. WRONG! Only Trump could do this - not Sleepy, not Crooked, not anyone!!! Tremendous numbers!!! #TruthWins
came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them] - 3day
reminds me of a self-evaluation i did at a job once i stopped caring. i had been there 10 year at this point.
the self-evals were super annoying busy work and ostensibly tied to "merit raises" which ranged from 0% - 2% based on arbitrary budget bullshit. so if you had a perfect performance review, you might get 0% or up to 2%. totally pointless, as i learned after 10 years of perfect evals with garbage raises while inflation climbed +15%.
we were supposed to rate ourselves and then paste a justifying narrative explanation of all our projects that had executed over the previous year alongside key performance indicators/ metrics we had to develop, all of this not mattering at all, because nobody read it, we never received feedback or comments. just a nice self-critical analysis project taking hours to pull data together and frame into a narrative that matches HR lingo about playing well with others and the highest ideals of blah blah blah.
of course, if the institution was actually funding us, i could see going through this theater as budget justification, but they weren't. we were all externally funded by project partners with their own reporting requirements that we had to satisfy and supplement with other funds we had to go out and apply for, those also having their own reporting requirements. love 2 write 3 progress reports for 1 project because austerity means no single entity wants to pay for any human labor time associated with provisioning the public goods regular people insist upon, so now 33% of project labor time can be eaten by administrative overhead compiling reports to 3 different institutions on 3 different fiscal timelines with 3 different tracking/progress requirements.
so literally, this self-eval was entirely a waste of time, money and effort at a time of year we were already busy doing our jobs for the community groups that did pay us.
so this one year, I just said, "fuck it" gave myself highest level marks across every category and left all the narrative justification blank, click submit.
eventually i get this message from my doofus boss being all passive aggressive about how "its difficult to justify highest marks with no justification."
so i responded, "i bet it is" and accepted his minor reduction of like 2 points with no rebuttal and concluded the entire performance review... because whats 2% off a maximum of a 2% raise? $20/year at most?
that was well worth the rounds of laughter i got from coworkers when i related the story and showed them the emails to prove it.
the only rational answer to the question of "how good are you?" when there's nothing at stake is "i am literally jesus christ."
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BigWeed [none/use name] - 3day
I had one of these and I gave myself the highest marks possible too. My manager took me aside and told me I can't do that and tried to get me to admit to lower marks. I told them there is no way I would ever not give myself 5 stars and he left it at that. Later I ended up asking for and getting an incredible raise, glad I kept a clean paper trail.
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SchillMenaker [he/him] - 3day
Lmfaooo. "I selected five stars because there was no option for ten stars. Not only do I do my own job but also my bosses job of personnel management and evaluation."
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miz [any, any] - 3day
yeah self-evals always felt like cult bullshit to psych workers into devaluing themselves
you're not going to base your decisions on what I write, but on what you already think of me, so this is just busy work where you hope I'll provide my own reasons for not being worth a raise
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Acute_Engles [he/him, any] - 3day
Employers get really snippy when you do the math on raises.
$0.50 an hour? Wow what will i spend my $20 a week before taxes on?
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OBJECTION! - 3day
Still not S rank though huh
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Acute_Engles [he/him, any] - 3day
I'm of the opinion that there can be only one S tier on a tier list and I mean... look at china. On paper the best character in the game
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DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them] - 3day
If this is what a good economy is like, can someone please ruin the economy?
SexUnderSocialism in chapotraphouse
The economy is so strong it broke the grading scale
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m7ktgyinfc2nSome experts said it couldn’t be done. WRONG! Only Trump could do this - not Sleepy, not Crooked, not anyone!!! Tremendous numbers!!! #TruthWins
reminds me of a self-evaluation i did at a job once i stopped caring. i had been there 10 year at this point.
the self-evals were super annoying busy work and ostensibly tied to "merit raises" which ranged from 0% - 2% based on arbitrary budget bullshit. so if you had a perfect performance review, you might get 0% or up to 2%. totally pointless, as i learned after 10 years of perfect evals with garbage raises while inflation climbed +15%.
we were supposed to rate ourselves and then paste a justifying narrative explanation of all our projects that had executed over the previous year alongside key performance indicators/ metrics we had to develop, all of this not mattering at all, because nobody read it, we never received feedback or comments. just a nice self-critical analysis project taking hours to pull data together and frame into a narrative that matches HR lingo about playing well with others and the highest ideals of blah blah blah.
of course, if the institution was actually funding us, i could see going through this theater as budget justification, but they weren't. we were all externally funded by project partners with their own reporting requirements that we had to satisfy and supplement with other funds we had to go out and apply for, those also having their own reporting requirements. love 2 write 3 progress reports for 1 project because austerity means no single entity wants to pay for any human labor time associated with provisioning the public goods regular people insist upon, so now 33% of project labor time can be eaten by administrative overhead compiling reports to 3 different institutions on 3 different fiscal timelines with 3 different tracking/progress requirements.
so literally, this self-eval was entirely a waste of time, money and effort at a time of year we were already busy doing our jobs for the community groups that did pay us.
so this one year, I just said, "fuck it" gave myself highest level marks across every category and left all the narrative justification blank, click submit.
eventually i get this message from my doofus boss being all passive aggressive about how "its difficult to justify highest marks with no justification."
so i responded, "i bet it is" and accepted his minor reduction of like 2 points with no rebuttal and concluded the entire performance review... because whats 2% off a maximum of a 2% raise? $20/year at most?
that was well worth the rounds of laughter i got from coworkers when i related the story and showed them the emails to prove it.
the only rational answer to the question of "how good are you?" when there's nothing at stake is "i am literally jesus christ."
I had one of these and I gave myself the highest marks possible too. My manager took me aside and told me I can't do that and tried to get me to admit to lower marks. I told them there is no way I would ever not give myself 5 stars and he left it at that. Later I ended up asking for and getting an incredible raise, glad I kept a clean paper trail.
Lmfaooo. "I selected five stars because there was no option for ten stars. Not only do I do my own job but also my bosses job of personnel management and evaluation."
yeah self-evals always felt like cult bullshit to psych workers into devaluing themselves
you're not going to base your decisions on what I write, but on what you already think of me, so this is just busy work where you hope I'll provide my own reasons for not being worth a raise
Employers get really snippy when you do the math on raises.
$0.50 an hour? Wow what will i spend my $20 a week before taxes on?
Still not S rank though huh
I'm of the opinion that there can be only one S tier on a tier list and I mean... look at china. On paper the best character in the game
If this is what a good economy is like, can someone please ruin the economy?
"the PT barnum of Adolf Hitlers" lol