What is the worst justification you have been given for your lower than expected ranking?
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I was told that I was twenty steps ahead of many peers with similar CL level, YEE and job description, but I did not have the patience for my peers to catch up with me.
After being advised by MOH that I needed to stop working all hours of the day & night or my carpal tunnel will get worse: I guess you'll just have to work harder next year.
Was told that the work I performed during the assessment period met the Very Good and Good categories but that the leadership team “felt” that the work I did just didn’t warrant either assessment category. In other words, we needed to find people to fill our bottom % mandate from brother Darren and you were selected for this year’s Hunger Games. The odds were not in your favor.
It makes me angry that this sh-t allowed to go on… I left a few years ago for multiple reasons but the highest is that the organisation has no integrity.
Leave…
Don’t put up with this sh-t…
Your performance was outstanding. Incredible actually. But someone (can’t tell you who) said you looked at them funny one day and so now I have to coach you on the vaguely described poor behavior. Which btw is now the narrative the mgrs in your rank group perceive you. Good luck fixing that.
We all think that ranking has anything to do with how well you did your job. How well you performed your tasks. NOPE!! The Base work is only there to justify that job being there. Meaning, supporting the business, and doing an excellent job, that doesn't count, as this is part of your base roll. The rest is up to you. Want to be an SME? Don't, unless you want to do the same job for 20 years, they will Never move you!!! How to get great rankings you need to do this. 1. Lots of pretty presentations to upper management. 2. Focus on 1 maybe 2 big projects. Ones you created (cough, invented) and started and ended in that April-> March time frame. No more. Spend little time on base work, as you need to free up the cycles, make sure it gets done without issues, but don't expand on it, not worth it.
I asked Managment a question once, who get's ranked higher the person who did 1 project Perfectly, or the person who did 25 projects almost perfectly. Answer, the person who did the 1 project perfectly..........................
So, start your year by how you want to end it, and do that.....
In the end you have to do what's right for you, what makes you sleep at night.
Remember, doing your base roll at a minimum and working all your Cycles on that 1 stand out project, might seem wrong, but that is what the company wants. So give them what they want.....
Good Luck
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Your recent CL promotion moved you into a tougher rank group and it is expected for you to take a hit in ranking in the new group. (Unless you are a HiPo)
Praying for you Annandale 🙏management lies
“In my team you are an outstanding performer, but in your rank group you are NSI.”
You have already reached your CL target salary curve, there is no point wasting....ummm...chewing up a good ranking on you. Please think of this as returning the favor to your team.
I'm doing a great job at the base. I'm an SME in my area. The business loves the job I'm doing for them (direct KO feedback). I'm supporting our strategic customers that purchase multi $M worth of product each year. I've made efficiency improvements at the job I do to help make room to do other things that support the business and make us more $$, but I'm NSI because I didn't spend any time doing things that make us $0 or actually cost us $$ in planning a group conference or leading a part of We Are ExxonMobil.
I knew I had outperformed every person in my rank group measurably so when I was told my mediocre ranking, I asked my boss to name anyone in my rank group that outperformed me, just so I could use them as a good example to aspire to be like. My Supervisor just said “this conversation is over”, and walked out.
They won’t say it but if you have moved out of the group or there are plans in the works for you to move to a new job then they drop you. Why use up high category spots (and motivation) for someone* who will not be there to help the management succeed this cycle.
*Unless predetermined based on your potential.
Not given any explanation just told results and asked if I had any questions. Entire conversation was less than 5 minutes. When I asked she told me that was where my relative contribution landed me. Acted annoyed when I tried to ask for more details and I got the message that it wasn’t a discussion that would get me any answers and by continuing to ask I would be labeled difficult.
Me: I outperformed every person at my CL level. How did I end up so far down in the ranking if nobody outperformed me?
Boss: You were the top performer but there were so many HiPos that had to be placed at the top of the ranking to support their planned trajectory. It could have been worse if there had been more HiPos in your group.
Me: How do I move up in the ranking next year?
Boss: Even if you are the top performer again next year, you will get the same ranking for the same reason.
You are just fine but you have showed your disappointment from last year’s ranking!
Ranked E last year, was told I was going to have a good shot at O. Long story short, was put in an unfair assessment pool and was told “that’s just the nature of the beast” lol
Last year the justification given for my poor rating was that I didn't put out based on my capabilities.
So this year, I'm not wearing any undies at my meetings and carrying around a large tube of lubricant with me to ensure that I put out adequately
You didn't do enough influence without authority.......oh I mean courage of conviction.
@mxh+1taq48Eg the same sh-t you mention has been used as a generic justification for decades, as if it is just a copy and paste from their cheat sheet. Shame, they can't come up with something real and factual to communicate the decision. On this (unerhical) ground only the mgmt. must be fired along with supporting HR org.
XOM is full of boot lic-kers that we would like to save; hence your low rank
We ranked you on criteria from this oddly specific list that was developed by the managers of other teams in your rank group that was designed to lift up the roles on their team at the expense of anyone in the role that you are in. As your manager, I agreed to it because it all sounded very leadershipy and it made all of us managers look justified in feeling superior to the common people who actually have skills and do the work.
It was a brutal group (T2 global) and whilst you did an excellent job, others did more. 😭😭
What this means is that unless you are close to power and are given special things to do with high visibility, it really doesn’t matter how well you do your job if you then don’t have the scope that other late have
You did great at everything we asked you to do, but we need you to do more work that you weren’t asked to do lol
It was a very competitive cycle.