Anyone else get an email with the unrealistic timeline for reviews and the bombshell that evaluations will only be based on statistical results, forgoing the Leadership ratings and weighting? The leadership ratings and weighting were the only hope many of us had for a halfway decent score this year.
Our store was stripped of manager positions at the start of the year and the few remaining managers have invested much of our time traveling to support F50 stores and picking up the responsibilities and work of the two managers who lost their jobs last year. We were expecting all of the hard physical labor and unpaid overtime for executives to be reflected in the leadership behaviors ratings. We are not an F50 or N75 store and we don't have the merchandise that customers want and service levels are not what they should be. Now we hear that our annual review scores will be based solely on our store scorecard which is just a 2.6, meaning we won't qualify for a raise.
It seems like this is a strategy to ensure that more than half of the managers at store level won't get an increase in 2025. It looks like when the company is closing 150 stores and has a surplus of displaced executives, it doesn't need to worry about engaging with mid level leaders, this is probably why the company cancelled the Pulse survey in January.