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Cornflakes

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Would you be willing to share if you got undeserved performance review in recent or distant path?

What reasons caused the issue? How did you handle the situation? Is HR intervention just for optics or some positive comes out of it?
 
Cornflakes said:
Would you be willing to share if you got undeserved performance review in recent or distant path?

What reasons caused the issue? How did you handle the situation? Is HR intervention just for optics or some positive comes out of it?
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What happened? Care to share?
 
So there's a couple big questions:

1. how big and how structured is the company?  A 100-500 person everything is still ultimately decided by the founder is very different than a 20,000 person publicly traded firm.

2. Is this a "poor" performance review or a PIP?

3. How's corporate culture?  Is there a cabal involved?

3 What's the nut of the issue?

4. Is it free of any potential related discriminatory issues?  Race, sex, age, orientation, etc?

Having fired, 'helped people find the door' and having needed to find the door, my viewpoint is that in larger firms, HR's primary role is protecting the company.  They'll make sure the established process is followed and that the appearance of potential discriminatory behavior isn't involved.

In a smaller firm that's still founder driven, they will do whatever the founder wants.  Smart founders have them operate like the above.  Not smart founders have the appearance of being capricious.

If you've crossed the Cabal, even a bigger firm will operate more like a capricious founder.  Although you're more likely to pick up a severance package.

JIMHO, YMMV
 
If you got a bad review, I wouldn't recommend for you to look for a new house. You should be looking for a new job.

(this is a general statement)


Don't take it personal. Sometimes the business needs to cut headcount. So they use this as a mechanism, to cut staff.



 
Cornflakes said:
Would you be willing to share if you got undeserved performance review in recent or distant path?
What reasons caused the issue? How did you handle the situation? Is HR intervention just for optics or some positive comes out of it?
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I used to work under a boss who had 30 people quit under him in 5 or 6 years.  I lasted a year.  He's the type who gave vague instructions that you need a decoder ring to understand, and doesn't tell you when he changes his mind.  You're just supposed to know and figure it out.  I was the change/release manager and was told to do whatever it takes to get the release through, then he chews me out the following week for not calling him to get pre-approval for overtime work because senior management had decided to take closer look at costs.  But his boss was even worse.

He gave me a crappy performance review and insisted on putting me on performance improvement track for "guidance" but never provided any guidance, other than "you just have to figure it out, there's no books or manuals".  When I did make the rounds from floor to floor and group to group to gain better awareness of everything that's going on, he chewed me out for talking to people in their cubical because if they don't get their work done, they might blame me for wasting their time.

Ultimately I decided to get another job elsewhere as my blood pressure was hitting 158, and my doctor advised me to quit before I hit level 2 hypertension.  If I were to give advice to people, I'd say given the same situation, you should find another job and document everything for HR.  Your manager is unlikely to put things in writing for evidence, so document your conversations like a diary and any coworkers who might have overheard it.

On the plus side, after that experience I rarely find my current work to be stressful.
 
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Good for you Momopi. Your health, happiness, and well being is far more important than working under a horrific boss. Glad that you made the right move. Life is just too short.

Cornflake, Here is a quote I want to share with you from one of my favorite classic authors.
 
Whatever the case may be, I would report your disagreement with the review to HR just so that it's on record.

If it comes down to you being terminated when you don't think you deserve it, or not being up for a raise/increase, that will help your cause.

Now, if you do deserve the bad review, take your lumps, improve your work and prove them wrong. :)
 
Rumor has it after his bad review cornflakes has been getting drunk on a daily basis and going to see Asian hookers in Irvines apartment complexes
 
qwerty said:
Rumor has it after his bad review cornflakes has been getting drunk on a daily basis and going to see Asian hookers in Irvines apartment complexes
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Must be not that bad, if he's looking for a new home.  ;)
 
qwerty said:
Rumor has it after his bad review cornflakes has been getting drunk on a daily basis and going to see Asian hookers in Irvines apartment complexes
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The hookers are all GATE qualified and are helping him edit his resume.
 
All the pieces are coming together.

Cornflakes is made by Kellogg's. 
Maybe cornflakes works for Kellogg's.
Employees at Kelloggs got caught peeing on the cereal. 
Employees get bad review

Here we are.  How do we handle a bad review.
 
I was disconnected from TI for few days and this thread turned into circus. Let me assure all the readers that all the rumors on this thread are pure imaginations of creative fellow TIers.

@momopi, sounds like your past boss could have been my boss last year.

Basically, the poor review is driven by politics. I ditched my boss mid-last year and took internal transfer in a large organization. He took his last shot at "back at ya" in my review. The funny thing is, I have measurable achievements to show, kudos from leadership and division GM and all to make my case to HR that his review is purely out of spite. And, that is what I am busy with lately. It make take few weeks to resolve but I am determined to escalate as high as I need to. How childish of him to give me "needs Improvement" on some initiative I took completely outside the job description for my own professional development.
 
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