I'm having a hard time even thinking about doing this year-end self evaluation, when I'm at a site that's being displaced next year. Why would they even give us promotions let alone a good raise.
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I received a good raise and bonus this year and then I was displaced in July.
1mlk+1uMgsGte
That's not on your manager really. It's all about the bell curve. There was an opportunity to give you a lower grade because it didn't matter to you, but allows the manager to give someone else a higher rating. Not sure how that help in the year ended review though because you'll be out of the pool
@1mlk "If you try to return", than you are a stupid person.
I can tell you don't deal with "middle managers" much. I'm not one either, but I report to one, and their job is a nightmare of corporate nonsense. I wouldn't do it for all the money in the world.
I am doing an AI review where I will tell them everything I’ve done. I can’t even say how much I’ve done, but I want to say wholeheartedly as a human experience, I’ve done here as a volunteer. Every chance I got I did it for cancer victims. I did it for military. I just feel like that, the best thing I’ve done for this company is my work volunteering.
It’s huge when it comes to people, that’s what I focus on and unfortunately, Wells Fargo is not doing that for people anymore.
Don’t go on leave for a life-threatening surgery. You’re just “ inconsistently meets”! But my manager said you didn’t do anything wrong, so I’m like why the F would you rate me like that after never getting that kind of rating, ever!
Come on Wells Fargo. Do better, like treat your people like humans. Seriously!
I wonder how often this happens. The employee is so defenseless in this case. People laid off should not be calibrated. Now if you try to return a manager can pull up old reviews and hold it against you.
I got laid off in June. My manager uploaded my review a month later and I didn't receive any notification about it. He lied through his teeth about my performance and gave me a needs improvement. Probably to justify the layoff. I figure he'll receive the same treatment at some point.
In the same boat OP…the end is near and it’s hard to get excited or even think about accomplishments. Honestly I’m just doing enough to not get fired at this point so I don’t risk my severance.
No other employer I've worked for before WF ever required me to write my own annual reviews. This also wasn't a big focus when I started with WF, it seems to have been a focus mostly after Stumpf left, in that interim when Sloan was "CEO".
So to reply to @1qso+1uMgsGte
Who is going to write our annuals? I don't know.... hmm... how about the overpaid middle managers? They should at least be doing SOMEthing.
Sorry, but if I have to call out everything I've done to my manager, then clearly my manager is an ineffective leader. Hilarious how managers can assign you a project, congratulate you for finishing it ahead of time, compliment you on the quality, and then CONVENIENTLY forget said projects they assigned you when reviews come around.
Not playing that game anymore
Your annual review isn't going to write itself, so there's not many options.
The left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand. An engineer on my team was promoted and laid off within two months.
For some of us, we almost have to write our own review. That's not the same for everyone, but there are good reasons to write your self evaluation. Managers will be going through their year end review and sometimes it's a good opportunity your manager of what you accomplished. Sometimes, you need to constantly sell yourself, because nobody else will do it. Might not impact your performance rating, but you might kick yourself if you didn't do anything at all
Just a check the box activity anyways.
Managers already know what rating they will give you regardless of what you write.
Self evaluations should always be done relative to the performance of the company.
It's going to be impossible for our group because there's been so many layoffs that we've been restructured 3 times and we no longer do most of the objectives we had assigned to us at the beginning of the year.