Message #3587

[lioness70]

I survived two negative hit-and-run performance reviews, one very recently, and I learned to document, document, document everything I do.  Another thing I learned is to keep in regular contact with the boss so I at least know where I stand and what I can improve.  My first hit-and-run was by a boss who took a disliking to me pretty much from the beginning, and when he gave me my review, I could tell that he took note of EVERY LITTLE MISTAKE I made to throw how bad I was in my face.  One thing he took me to task for was not giving a stack of purchase orders to him in alphabetical order-never mind that company policy was to keep them in NUMERICAL order.  After this, all I could do was CMA.  I kept a notebook, with all his complaints, and insisted on meeting with him regularly to see how I was improving.  After a while, he said I wasn't any better, so I took the hint and got out of there before he could fire me.  That's the thing with reviews-if you have a bad boss, these things become like firearms.  Dearm them by documenting!