On Friday I had my performance review at work. The boss was about to go on vacation and was rushing around to get both mine and Deb’s review done since both of us will be on vacation the week after that.
I was curious to see how this went with Paul, my manager, doing this. Normally the supervisor does this but we haven’t hired a new one.
My reviews are always good with the reviewer telling me what a wonderful employee I am. Every year we have a bunch of goals we need to do. I always squeek by getting credit for doing them but this year I felt I blantantly didn’t do a lot of them and was wondering if it really has a negative effect on the review and the raise I get later in the year.
Well I can’t talk to the raise part until August but I am here to say, I am still an outstanding employee who had a exceptional year. Where I exceeded was with my billables so it is understood why I couldn’t complete a lot of those goals. I was too busy making money and that always rules.
Did I ever tell you how we (me and “bob”) were rewarded with our outstanding billable hours this year? By upping the goal to be billable for 7.3 hours (instead of 6.3). Yeah right, thanks buddy. Ann keeps telling me not to sign my goals because of that. It is out of our control as we are assigned jobs. I am still waiting for Paul to have me sign the goals cause I am ready to protest. Especially since so far this year I haven’t come close to making that goal. I have been slow for the most part this year and I suspect my nice meaty jobs will come while I am out on vacation in a week.
What I am really wondering is how next years performance review will go when I don’t have all those billables but I do get my other goals done?