The new trend is to fire you for performance. Zero coaching or advance warning. Let say you are rated Meets. During mid-year, you will be surprised with IC or NI with no turnaround plan. It will be some minor issue too like failing to staple your TPS report. WFA is already planning this. It’s evil and they hope you don’t sue.
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It’s nothing new! Managers have told me that they must put a percentage of their employees in the IM category even though they may not really deserve it.
They HAVE to pick some. It’s not bs
100% true, been on a couple of calls. Client Associates are next. I gave feedback that you cannot go from Meets/Exceeds to IM, then fired the following month. It’s a cost cutting effort to not give out packages. Don’t listen to those who claim it’s not rigged. If you want to cut, give out the package but they are being cheap. Fight back and sue. Being fired and laid off are 2 different things.
@am “….to avoid severance….” If you can prove that understood. That’s shiesty. But, prove it!? Just because performance based displacements have ramped up does not equal a calculated avoidance of payouts. It is simply enforcement of policy.
@a8 no one can be a top performer every year. People will have up and down years, others will have an up year while you have a mediocre year. Those that were always a top performer are either lying or was part of the boys club. Now they are getting hit with reality and they are surprised? Please…..
@ag all this is counterintuitive to the years where it was said that no one can be an exceeds every year, especially after a promotion. People have up and down years just like a sports athlete. But now they want to ignore the trends and just give you a moment in time… the time they had to cut and did not like you for something like your attitude.
@e3 With all the coffee badging most likely underperforming
@a8 Or, breaking news! You are actually underperforming
this accelerated heavily 4Q last year.
@ac Saying "this isn't new" is missing nuance. Performance based terminations occurred in the past, but there's plenty of evidence they are ramping up on these as a lever for severance avoidance, as their primary attrition is faltering in the face of a weak job market
Ratings have changed for to meets or doesn’t meet. No more range.
Yeah … no
They absolutely do forced ranking. They said naturally there are people that fall in the lower 20% and those people need to get IM. If you give all your team Meets you will be asked to redo your work.
@a8 yeah, that's been done for almost 5 years now
Its nothing new.
It's happening, forced / stacked rankings. I was an IM and questioned SR management. He blatantly denied that process is place. The explanation; we have to recognize our exceptional performers and sometimes, as difficult as it is, we need to call out individuals who aren't providing value
Lying bunch of f-tards
No they aren't.
Again, try harder @OP
Which line of business is this?