Self Evaluations...

[TRAILBLAZER]

Dumbest shit evar

[GE]

Waste of time. Even more so if you boss is a cocksucker sleeping with one of your peers.

Pics of said peer?

[GhostTX]

Do any of you have the performance split in to "whats"(goals) and "hows"(competency)? The goals are everything we are expected to meet, and then the competency is your attributes or work ethics. You basically make progress notes on all of this and then give yourself a score at the end of the period.

This all just what the company calls the "performance plan".

You have a whole other "development plan" you are supposed to keep up with too.

Jeez, sounds like we work for the same corporation.

I had to do this for 3 years and hated doing it. The last one I had to do I stated that "Every day I am employed here I let my work ethic and accomplishments speak for themselves. If nobody wanted to monitor my performance during the year why should I sum it up and make it easy for them to do their job." I haven't done one since.

From some eone else:
A senior director that I once had the luck to work with on a very touchy project told me, and I paraphrase:

People measure effort when they can't measure results. When someone complains of the lack of effort on your part (this was a really acrimonious project relationship), you know you've won because they don't know what you are doing, and don't know what you should be doing.

[Baron Von Crowder]

We don't have reviews for sales staff. Your numbers are there, or they are not. We do have monthly and quarterly sales reports, which are a complete waste of time, because they don't read them. I've been turning in the same sales report for one factory, quarterly, for 10 years. I do update the numbers to make them accurate, but my list of needs to take action and suggestions have not changed once.

Occasionally I'll get ripped for something, and I always go back to that sales report and that's the end of it. If you're going to waste my time filling these things out, don't get upset when you get blindsided by something because you haven't read the report. Luckily all that shit is at the factory level as my employer doesn't micro manage.

We do, but if you are doing a self review, you will be having a meeting with your manager to discuss it. The only sales staff I've seen get reviewed were under-performing. I think I got one my first year, though my new sales manager sent me one recently and I just replied "is this for real?" Never heard back about it. Rumor is he sent it to everyone to gauge strength and weaknesses in the sales department.