The incentive system discourages achievement. After years of putting in extra effort to “exceed expectations” and never getting a resulting pay increase, I cut back my efforts. Now I get "meets expectations" on my annual evaluations with the same results. If the company does not want my extra work, it's foolish to provide it.
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Whoever wrote this on +1bfdvA2s is 1000 percent true. I have been trying to get a pay increase for more than two years and without any results. Maybe I should have stopped trying a long time ago?
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I've cut back my efforts significantly in the last year for exactly the same reasons. My manager didn't even notice (how should he with 50 people in his team). I still get exceeds expectations.
I wouldn’t say the answer is for you to stop trying and give up, I would say the answer is for you to move to a company that will acknowledge and reward contribution.
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
I think the general philosophy at DXC is if you are doing the same job year over year - no matter how well - you get the same pay. Doing a better than average job only makes you more likely to get a promotion and thus a pay bump. In the world of ITO, they treat employees like cogs in a machine. Don't like it? Quit. We'll replace you with another cog. I'd be interested to hear if any competitors employ a similar philosophy.