Is it acceptable for a company to expect constant availability from its employees? The rise of hybrid working arrangements has been beneficial in a lot of ways, but one of its big downsides is that it leaves a lot of workers feeling like they can never truly clock out. When you can, technically speaking, do …
Seguir leyendo 9 to 5 employee declines work call at 10 PM, gets placed on performance improvement plan afterwards: ‘I questioned whether there was any urgency’
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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.’
Talk about a contradictory statement! In the workplace, you get a lot less feedback than you got when you were in school. When you’re a student, nearly everything you do gets graded, and your grade lets you know how you are doing in the class. If you were lucky, your teacher would write specific feedback …
Seguir leyendo 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.’
Manager puts employee on a Personalized Improvement Plan without discussing the plan with her: ‘I received mail saying that I need to complete a PIP.’
How was she supposed to improve if she didn’t know about the plan personally? Once your boss puts you on a Personalized Improvement Plan, you know your days at your company are numbered. Your boss might frame this game plan as if they’re trying to help you be a better employee, but that’s not true …
Seguir leyendo Manager puts employee on a Personalized Improvement Plan without discussing the plan with her: ‘I received mail saying that I need to complete a PIP.’
Boss instructs employee to clock out whenever he’s not actively working: ‘My goal is for you to have zero down time.’
That’s not how having a job works. If you’ve ever worked in retail or food service, you know that you seldom get a minute of rest in those positions. They are designed to extract as much labor from employees as possible while paying them as little as possible. There’s often a list of all the …
Seguir leyendo Boss instructs employee to clock out whenever he’s not actively working: ‘My goal is for you to have zero down time.’
Manager promotes all his employees except his top performer, who loses all motivation: ‘He is hands down the best recruiter I’ve worked with among his peers.’
He did the one thing that was almost guaranteed to demotivate him. It can be difficult to stay motivated to work hard when it’s been proven that hard work doesn’t yield tangible positive results. If an employee works harder and performs better than all of their coworkers, they should be rewarded for that work, even …
Seguir leyendo Manager promotes all his employees except his top performer, who loses all motivation: ‘He is hands down the best recruiter I’ve worked with among his peers.’
Employee expects promotion with performance review, upper management randomly select him as needing improvement: ‘I have had an amazing year’
It is never safe to assume that working hard at your job will always be appreciated. While we are often told that putting in the effort and succeeding at our role is the thing that will get us noticed, this often turns out to be far from the truth. The joke that hard work is …
Seguir leyendo Employee expects promotion with performance review, upper management randomly select him as needing improvement: ‘I have had an amazing year’
Employee of 3 years gets promoted after an amazing performance review, only gets a 1.75% raise: ‘I’m a father of 3 trying to make ends meet’
He deserves a lot more than a raise of 1.75% Many managers wish they could give their top-performing employees a bigger raise, but that’s simply not in the budget in this economy. It’s a harsh reality right now that we are probably in a recession, but the government just isn’t willing to call a spade …
Seguir leyendo Employee of 3 years gets promoted after an amazing performance review, only gets a 1.75% raise: ‘I’m a father of 3 trying to make ends meet’