My manager literally said in a meeting that she has never given an Exceeds. Seems to track as before joining this company, I've always gotten very high performance marks but since coming here, it's always Meets. Does anyone have similar stories? I only started reporting to this team this year.
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I am only allowed to have x number of exceeds and usually 1 significantly exceeds - this is nothing new. Managers get grief from staff every year why they can't exceed, when they are also getting meets standards for working their azz off. And in many cases they are not making much more money that some line staff.
Most people have accepted this dysfunctional process since they cannot change it. What they can change is the attitude - you give me meets standards and that is what I work to. Not a bit more because it is not worth it. And merit raises of 2% is a bigger joke. If you have worked here for more than 10 yrs. your salary is higher because the merit used to be much much larger - you are paying for it now - you are close to the top of the range so you get scraps.
Exceeds is for the a-s kissers that leadership wants to give big raises to. It has nothing to do with performance. The whole process is a scam. Don’t get caught up in it. I
They are discouraged from giving exceeds, and when they do, it's often kicked back by HR. There's only a small percentage of exceeds allowed, and they have to be able to back it up.
At a certain point a few years ago, they started the gaslighting thing of "make no mistake, a meets expectations means you're doing great!" It wasn't like this prior to the current leadership.
The higher your rating, the more the algorithm assigns for your merit and bonus, so they're artificially lowering it.
It's entirely possible your manager has her own lofty standards, but the company would hang them on her even if she didn't.
Don't worry, her husband is probably cheating on her. It's also impossible to get above a 3 here so don't even bother trying.