• silverbax@lemmy.world
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    That’s literally every company.

    As a manager, you get frustrated because no matter how good an employee is,they won’t let you rate them as high as they should be, for…reasons.

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      Psst!

      Its because they don’t want to raise their pay, and also want the employee to blame themselves for not getting the pay raise/promotion instead of their greedy employer.

      But don’t tell anyone. Its a secret!

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        another reason I heard is it’s also another tool to give the company wiggle room to say they’re not in the best state they could be, that there’s still room for growth. under the current system, companies have to keep growing and keep appearing to have the potential for growth, or die

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          Unless you’re telling your sick grandmother she looks great, deception as a standard practice makes you a deceiver. They’re clearly comfortable with that, though.

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      I was actually told during a review that they couldn’t rank me higher because then they’d have to give me more money. My boss said I deserved it, but they didn’t have the money to give it to me.

      I started looking for a new job that day.

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          Not to mention hiring the always more expensive replacement dev.

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          Used to work for CenturyLink. The year they took away our Christmas bonus is the same year the company really took a nosedive.

          CEO got a 20 billion million dollar bonus, enough to cover our Christmas bonuses and still give him 15 million.

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        I had something similar! But my manager was a former dev that I worked for that didn’t know how to manage and tried to convince me that I didn’t deserve it.

        I got a 30% raise moving elsewhere.

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      My wife’s company does this overtly.

      Raises are based on performance scores, they were prohibited from giving top scores for any category, because “nobody’s perfect.”

      But when asked what could be done better there’s never any answer.

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      Slave must work hard but slave must not be rewarded for that labour… That’s holy profit and it belongs to shareholders after top execs get their cut obvi.

      This is why every day more people are finding out that providing good service is for idiots who have no self respect.

      lEaDeRShIP

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      It’s why I focus on work life balance over everything else. No point in giving away weekends and nights for an average review. Average is perfectly rine with me, but that’s also what I give now.

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      Yes. I work at a power plant in a large department. The best “ratings” that dictates our bonus multiplier is limited to five people because there are certainly only five people whose performance exceeds expectations. /s

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      The reason why is more that you have to justify top performmers against their peers and against their role responsibilities. That takes work and many managers dont want to do it.