No Snivelling

Before I leave Unitus, I face the task of not only transitioning my job responsibilities (aka what the heck did I do every day that kept me so busy?) but also completing my team's performance reviews, 360 reviews for co-workers, manager reviews and my own review.

Oh, joy.

Honestly, who enjoys doing performance reviews? Noone! Or, is it no one?

Why is that? I think for several reasons:

1) Good Scenario -- even if you are a wunderkind, it amounts to extra work that is not really accounted for in the workload. You need to sit down and spend time summarizing what you did, how you did versus goals and try to set goals for the next period that are challenging but not TOO challenging (you all know what I mean ;-) )

2) Bad Scenario -- you missed your goals, and you know it, or you have a direct report who missed their goals, and they may or may not (as is usual) be aware of the fact. In either case, it ain't a party.

End of day, though, it just amounts to extra work. No one's against goal setting, evaluation and compensation. But, at many companies it amounts to a bit of a circlejerk, since there's already a 3% companywide salary increase in the budget and there's that old bell curve to comply with.

Sure is nice being a cynical short-timer :-)