It is best to understand that we are living in a perfect "IMPERFECT" world, thou it is bitter to digest the fact, it is always better to gulp this idea. All these management jargons like appraisal, performance etc are farce and tools in the hands of managers (they are like the spanners used to fix or release the nuts with a very minimal effort) and brand the way they want.
In my first job , I was the best performer for 3 consecutive years with spl. Performance Cheques and appraisal letters from sr. vice president(SVP) and tons of work( almost 50% of 7 member team) But I was fooled, there was another parallel plot started after first year, SVP%u2019s acquaintance(X) joined the team and my boss(who reports to SVP) made sure X always have a rating better than the best.(his technique was put a deadline for appraisal submission forms ,collect all forms, see who ever scores the best and ask X to submit a fresh form with clues on rating giving lame excuses like %u201Cur form is lost%u201D, %u201Cu messed up the form%u201D , at one instance , he made sure X fills the form with pencil and helped X in erasing and scribble the numbers. even today X is a good friend of mine and did not knew all these went thru.
At the time of promotion, my name was not even considered on the ground that I lack what is called %u201CQuality%u201D, which cannot be measured and I was never informed before about my lack of quality. When I escalated , all I could get was a couple of verses from bhagavat gita like %u201C karmaney vaadhika%u2026.%u201D ( do ur work with out expecting result%u2026..)
Folks, be wise, work to the fullest, leave ur office work/junk in office and go home peacefully. Do not expect anything from ur beloved boss or esteemed organization. Enjoy good health and family life. Try all these gimmicks to creep the ladder, but always fall back to the famous verse from bhagavat gita %u201Ckarmaney vaadhika%u2026.%u201D
RE:Climb the ladder of hierarchy
by Smart Fool on Feb 07, 2007 05:10 PM Permalink
Appraisal are a bunch of lies which both the supervisor and the employee mutually agree they are lies and the supervisor rates only the employee's lies as to how good or bad the lies were :))
