Has anyone had any luck with their manager and plus one changing their rating?
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Appealing a performance rating is an incredibly short-sighted and stupid thing to do. You force your manager justify the rating to HR and their manager, the latter of whom most likely wants to do anything but think about some lower-level employee they probably met only once. Appealing a rating is essentially saying your manager can't do their job properly, they're not going to like that.
Now, you're the #1 target for the next cuts on your team. Your manager is going to be thinking of ways to put you on a PIP and get you out the door with no severance in retaliation. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down, or in your case, hammered right into termination.
@fy If there’s already a target in my back and it’s BS then the value is in documenting that.
Yes, was in a situation where the employee did great work after the initial eval. Had no problem initiating the change.
Sad to say, it’s highly likely it won’t work out, OP.
For your manager and skip level to change their rating of you, it would mean accepting they were wrong. What typically happens is you appeal, or fight it, or whatever they want to call it (they almost always try to use charged language), then they bring in HR and it’s always a “they said - they said” situation. They all back each other 99 times out of 100.
Remember: their main job is to reduce risk to the company. Not you, not your job…their risk.
If you didn’t get a PIP, or a warning, be glad you dodged the culling blade another year. And look for the exit.
Regardless, staying put after appealing will indeed make you stick out and likely get you out the door faster than if you accept it. Nike is a toxic place with no protections for you.
Giving people bad reviews is a mix of truly bad performance, bad fit post re-orgs, and finally most likely: a draconian tool to formalize and we-ponize gossip against you so you’ll quit vs get laid off and have to pay you severance.
@fa Why would you intentionally do something?
Why would you intentionally do something to put yourself in the crosshairs?