review time, time to be told how replaceable you are. do a great job all year and get your M. While all of the Veeps and directors get the E & O.
Remember M does not = Meets —Its really means Mediocre. Anyone else doing your job could do just as well at it.
Raises should be across the board as the cost of living continually goes up, you either deserve a real raise or you should be sent packing.
Someone else decides your value. If you should just get by with the marginal M 3% you would get at any other place. If you get that E or O then the company values you and needs you. M = mediocre they do not care if you stay of go.
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Reviews don't matter. Being a terrible employee doesn't matter, just as being a great employee doesn't matter. If people were actually held accountable for their actions the company would be successful. Instead there is a culture of moving the 'problems' around to different departments or just pretending like everything will fix itself on it's own or that people will just give in and work around the problematic employees. The whole company is FULL of these people of all ages. With a company full of unreliable, c-appy workers how could it succeed. I say trim the fat, but trim the right fat. It would do everyone good, including the ones that get cut.
To the person who wrote:
“We have way to many people that are of retirement age that refuse to go, all they do is hold others back from advancing and making the correct changes to meet the new market. Your old ways dont work anymore...move on”
Obvious Ageism aside, the problem is actually Work Culture which exploded so fast leaving Boomers, Gen X-ers, Millenials all within the labor pool. Think of it like inflation, but replace currency with “worker value.” Culture that now expects every worker to have multiple specialized skill sets, plus have experience level of mid-to-senior role even for junior positions. They want every worker to be comfortable wearing several ‘hats’ so they can cram three separate jobs into one person. Companies then want to hire Younger folks so they can be paid less and are more likely to job-hop so their replacement cost is still low. They demand workers bring more Value, for the same job role.
Also, the ones to blame for lack of advancement is the HR and Executives. They established the too few number of levels across the company. They refuse to stratify into more levels below a Director, so there is overcrowding at Seniors, Managers levels right below it. People who are amazing at their jobs can’t move up without being a threat to the Director level or Sr. Directors. Execs want a nice tidy pyramid shape of organization, not middle -heavy with more mid-level than entry level employees.
vive le résistance
So true. If you’ve been there more than 5 years you will make more money by leaving. The pay increases are comical at best.
I once got a double digit “bonus”! That’s right, two whole digits, in the tens! Thanks Fossil!
None of this matters. Wait and see in February.
We have way to many people that are of retirement age that refuse to go, all they do is hold others back from advancing and making the correct changes to meet the new market. Your old ways dont work anymore...move on
All these analytic veeps, but they have forgotten about how to make the customer happy-how to build brand loyalty
You hit the nail on the head