Boss scolds employee during performance review for doing the bare minimum, while also claiming that she meets all of her goals: 'If they want to see bare minimum they’ll for sure see it starting now.'

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    The boss tells the employee that she both did the bare minimum and exceeded expectations. 

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  • Been here 5+ years and have a ton of accolades under my belt (Boss has significantly less experience than I do by the way and was brought in externally instead of me getting promoted).

  • Nail in the coffin for me wanting to be here; any shred of motivation I had left is completely gone.

  • I even asked what they meant about that line while they were also praising me and they couldn't specify ANY issues... even said that they agree with every decision I've made.

  • If they want to see bare minimum they'll for sure see it starting now. Never going above and beyond again, and gonna start keeping an eye out for other opportunities.

  • LikelySoutherner Don't you just love contradicting phrases in performance reviews?

  • MASSochists I had a boss complain that I wasn't finishing assignments in time. I ask what he meant all of my assignments were done before the due dates. He said I waited to long to do them and should have done them sooner. So I said well why didn't you make the due date sooner!? Got to love being judged by unwritten rules and moved goalposts.

  • PopularBroccoli I once got told off for only just making the deadline. My team were the only one to make the deadline, all other departments were not even close

  • Succesful entrepreneurs and business people achieving goals

    The team works together to meet the deadline, which is something none of the other teams at their company could do. 

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  • fingerofchicken "Bare minimum" means "meeting the specifications." Bosses who think you should spend your time doing stuff nobody asked for are not great bosses.

  • Silver_Adagio138 Now you know not to be there for six years

  • Panchenima If your objetively measures are great but subjetive opinions are low is just an excuse for not to promote or raise your salary, that in itself is a huge redflag of the dishonesty of the supervisor/manager o company.

  • BeagleMom2008 My mom recently had an annual review with a new boss and was told they're "realigning" and everyone is just "average." She's just doing her job and having to go above and beyond "every now and again" isn't exceptional. This is a mere few months after being given a retention bonus after a lot of turmoil in her department.

  • She's 65, has been there around 25-30 years, so changing jobs really isn't an option for her (ageism in employment is real, my dad is permanently dis ed, and the job market is sh), so now she is just trying to figure out how to make it to retirement, and hoping she can afford to retire when she gets there.

  • vatothe0 "You said I was doing the bare minimum earlier. How could I possibly be doing less while still meeting the goals YOU set?"

  • RephofSky in other words, their own standards are low and they want you doing the work of 4+ people for the same pay.

  • Altruistic_Lock_5362 They want you gone. Very simple. That sh of a boss is telling you, I got the job, you time is done.

  • clichekiller There's a belief among some managers that you must always find one thing to critique on a review to keep your employees on their toes. It's bulls but then there are people who genuinely believe the earth is flat.

  • teresajs At my last job, in a large meeting, a Manager announced that they were resetting things and it would be nearly impossible to get rated as "Exceeds Expectations" in the future. There were a lot of employees afterwards talking about how they might stop working so much overtime.

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    Employees conspire not to work overtime, because nothing they can do will give them a top score on their performance reviews. 

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  • I hate Annual Reviews. If there's a performance issue, it should be discussed far before an annual review occurs. And Annual Reviews have very little impact on raise amounts. The company has determined the total raise amounts they'll be awarding (for the company, for each department) before reviews are completed. The only way for one employee to get an above average raise is for another to get a below average raise. And so much of the review process is subjective. I would have been happy to acce

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