What is going on in the Toronto office: mid-year performance check-ins. Managers are looking extra hard for reasons to downgrade staff in mid-year reviews. They pile on too much work and then they watch close for you to miss something so they can note your “near miss”. This is to make end of year reviews (early 2022) easier on the managers because they are told from the top that they have to pick a few names for “partially achieved” rankings in order to save a few bucks for TR. It’s transparently dirty. It betrays the relationship between managers and staff. What a toxic work culture!
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Estimation and time tracking is your friend, use it correctly. There is 8 working hours in the day. Cover your a$$ properly.
In Eagan as well.
With lean staffing and accelerating deadlines were breaking our backs….for what?
When SH said they will leverage attrition to meet reductions in force, this is all by design.
Let’s work them to death to make them quit so we don’t have to pay them is beyond f’ed up.
They selling the damn company people
It's the same in corporate sweat shops across the USA. Employees are usually targeted for reasons such as a "run-in" with a boss in another department, being at the upper end of the pay scale, over 50, etc. You are targeted long before you get the “partially achieved”. And that's nothing but a pure and simple old-fashioned hit job.
Was tr employee for many years, but left few years ago. I was asked to play a major role to support a high potential employee on one of his projects at the expense of my own objectives. He got his exceed, but I got a partial.
Apparently TR made a decision about which course would be less damaging to its reputation: It decided that assuring employees of the quality of their work yet being forthright about small raises is worse than transparent, wide-scale professional as----------n.
Just leave people, plenty of better places to work
Couldn’t agree more. Coming from a dedicated employee who received a partially achieved it has destroyed me. I know in my head I shouldn’t take it personally because I know it’s just a nasty practice TR has developed but still find it hard getting up to go to work now. They say they care about our health and well being? I call BS. If they did they wouldn’t be pulling this s@#t. Makes me sick every time I receive an email from them. Keeping my eyes open for a better future.