Hey remember a time when this was a useful thing that actually meant something? To improve and grow within a company which would reward your performance accordingly? Yeah me neither
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HR needs to be scrapped LOL. Take that useless head of HR at the Tower, the dud himself, prime example of performance reviews gone wrong. Who in their right mind would put such an ignorant piece OS at that position...exactly! Also, people like him care less about these performance reviews so he doesn't implement them. Its just a big waste with people that don't know what they are doing anyways.
HR scrapped it. It's useless. Even if you aced it for 5 straight years, promotions are given based on who you know, not on what you know or how well you performed. Many big corps have ditched that long past. HR should start evaluating management independently, through consulting firms.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190501-why-appraisals-are-pointless-for-most-people
No performance reviews, no 401k matching, no raises, and no promotions unless you are one of the clique. Work to the bone and get cut unless you are one of the clique.
Performance reviews at NOV are just box ticking exercises and no relevance whatsoever to developing and rewarding, look what happened, all the good guys left and work for our competitors, good for them !
Yea those performance reviews were a joke. You gotta raise based on your boss, if he had ba--s he would get something for you but most of them did not. Always came back with some lame excuse such as we can’t go higher than 10% because they were scared to take it up higher.
So a raise for many was using the cr-p out of expense account. Nice dinners w “clients”, bringing the significant other on “business trips”, golfing at best courses, entertain “clients” at “dance” clubs, moonlighting while “working” etc etc etc….
So many had great raises. LOL
I was at Varco and it was a big deal to do performance reviews and your salary/raise reflected your performance. I remember at NOV being told you cannot give a 1 or a 5 because no one is perfect and if they are a 1 you should have fired them already. "So why isn't the scale 1-3?" Plus there was no way to really even comment on it. Usually I got a raise and didn't know it was coming and got the same % as the fool who was eating paste in his cubicle all day. Real inspiring. Makes you want to try really hard.