*jumps up to look over cubicle* When did you start working here?

I'm SO with you on this one. I'm having a go-around with my boss now, and it may come home to roost on my annual evaluation. It's something that easily could have been taken care of in a couple of meetings.

They once wanted me to write my own job description here... So I wrote "Sit and look pretty".

In retrospect I should have added "blog" and "shop for housewares on the internet", but I was drunk with power and I totally forgot.

I so agree with Buzz's assessment of 'guidance when needed'. Early in my career, I had a new manager (we'll call him Bob) who put on my review that I sometimes came in late. After discussing this with Bob for a while, I realized that I came in late on the days after Bob told me he needed something on "his desk first thing in the morning." I'd stay at work till 1 or 2 in the morning finishing up the item(s), and then roll in late by 10 minutes (only 6 or 7 hours after I'd left.) Since Bob's manager had seen the draft review, Bob decided he wasn't going to change the review. I worked for Bob for exactly 6 months, and then moved on. Like many people, he was good technically, but I don't think he had the best people skills ! So how come HE had the bad people skills, but I ended up suffering for it ?

I love the skin and the content is consistently well written. You need to pick up the pace on some days. All in all, I'll give you a 4.5 out of 5. There's no money in the budget though, so you will have to get by on my lame comments. Now get back to work.

Gosh!!! Don't like those reviews either. Some of my links on da-latest post might help ya... They he'ped me! Chin-UP! I love the new clothes your blog is wearing. I should have told ya that before now... oops!

in my office we write our own review and the boss looks it over and decides if he/she agrees with it or not. they don't even write one for us themselves! the last few years i've taken to giving them a HUGE novel for a performance review, outlining in painful detail all the things i've done. that way, even if they cut stuff out, it's still better then anything they would have written about me. besides, since i'm having to do it on company time, they're paying me to write it!

I'm with ya on this one, I hate them too. I as well have to write my own reviews and I feel it's tougher that way. I hat evaluating myself.

We have to do self-assessments every year, but usually, they go along with raises. Therefore, I don't mind. Also, it is a chance to toot my own horn and have it put in my folder (and bring it along if I have interviews!)

Oh, and I have had the same boss for forever, and we usually just sit there and talk about something other than work the whole time because my performance is never an issue. Yay!

The key is having the secretary go into the bosses office to steal his evaluation, so you'll have the same answers. "I got the same thing for number six also, wow do WE think alike!"

Oh...just one more benefit of being self employed. I pat myself on the back all day long.

"My, my, my Kathy Howe, what a stellar job you are doing AGAIN. Thank you for being part of this team."

*grins*

I have ALWAYS written my own reviews. Grrrrrrrrr.

It's the same way where I work. We almost had quarterly reviews but mgmt was too lazy to cope with them.

my last job worked the same way -- plus it was a non-profit organization, so it was all touchy-feely and stuff. very annoying when it came time to performance reviews. "i feel that..." blah blah blah. Enough already. It's not the clients that make social work a difficult field to work in, it's the co-workers!

When I was contract I had to write mine up and give it to my boss and he would either agree or disagree. Now that I'm hired in full time, they write and I tell them what I think. I like that much better. Much less work for me and besides I hate talking about myself. I know hard to tell.

I just did my portion of mine this morning ... I am waiting for the meeting with the boss. Last year, they went to great lengths to explain that the annual review process is NOT tied to the raise process. I then asked the stupid question, "Ok, then what IS tied to the raise process? Lottery? Blackmail? Alphabetical? I'm still waiting for an answer." I do remember one time years and years ago I actually talked my boss out of adding a bad comment to my review. I made him understand that if he never told me to do this task he was angry about, how could he hold it against me that I didn't psychically KNOW he wanted it done. Ah ... the fun!