Last post, I wrote about my then-impending annual ritual of humiliation, the performance review. Here's how the ritual works. Each fluxee is sequestered in a room, blinds drawn, facing his or her manager with a sheet of paper in front of them. On that sheet is their annual ranking on a 5-level scale:
1 - you suck
2 - you suck less
3 - you ok
4 - you da man
5 - (upper management, where everything glitters like gold)
I don't qualify for level 5 and the average score company-wide for non-executives is 2. For two previous consecutive years, I was 'da man', which resulted in a promotion last year. For those two 'da man' reviews, I received a cumulative raise of 4%, which includes the raise due to the promotion. This year, I was told that I suck (less) -- a score of 2. It wasn't unexpected. The past year was all about debugging the Flying Flux. High profile bugs. Bugs that made customers angry. Bugs that became high profile. Bugs that made management wonder why things can't be designed with zero bugs. Expectations were also higher since my promotion. And with all that negativity, I still ended up with a 3% raise this year. So let's see -- 2 years of being a top performer gets me 4% in total. One year of lesser suckatage gets me 3%. Looks like I'm going to kick back and relax in 2011. Time to cruise for the rest of my career.
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This has been my experience as well. I've moved from x 4's to two in a row 5's (i'll be getting my new rating soon). Every year my raise got worse. Last year I got a 5 AND a promotion all for a whopping 2% raise. I agree it wasn't worth it, especially since my boss and my boss's boss like to constantly remind me how they "hooked [me] up" last year or "really pulled for" me. The difference between working my ass off and totally slacking seems to be about 1%, maybe 2% in years of a better economy. So not worth it.
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