Message #3578

[deedeeb]

Ugh, I hate them.  Our company has only three ratings for people at my level, so you're a 1, 2, or a 3.  If you're a 1, you're toast.  If you're a 3, you walk on water.  So 99% of us get a 2 rating, which they call "a significant contributor".  I particularly enjoyed the comment my last boss offered:  "Well, since we have to go by the percentages, we can only have one "3" rated person, and you're not it."  A few years ago I had a particularly bad manager (not evil, just completely ineffective) who, when I asked for feedback on my performance, stammered around and finally said, "well, you're not...you're not....not NICE!"  Not especially helpful, boss.  I had to sit there and say "in what WAY am I not nice?"