It’s in my best interest to improve my job performance, but that seems like a mission impossible. How to improve job performance when you have more and more work to do almost every day? The quality of work is inevitably deteriorating.
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There are some ways to answer this depending upon you personally
- favoritism matters. If you immediate manager favors you, which can be hard to determine sometimes, that offers some protection. It also depends upon your manager
- not trying to be judge you, but do you feel your are on top of your things to complete? Also, if you have been in your current role for a year or more, what where your ratings ? If your immediate manager didn't call anything out, like lack of output/performance and you got a 3 or possibly higher, there is probably not a lot you can do to improve your perceived performance. The company has made it extremely difficult to get higher than a 3 overall - and there there is Anthem rounding of numbers - which does not follow scientific/mathematic rules.
- I changed jobs within IT in the past few years. Seems like this gig of mine is quota based. I keep hearing get credit for doing this or that. Which I never experienced in over 15+ years. Meaning each one has equal weight - which most of us still here in IT we know is not true.
- there is no great answer to your question. It depends upon your manager and that person's manager and what they think of you. I would not break your back to get things done - meaning putting in crazy hours, no one remembers that when cut time comes
Good luck!