Annual Self Evaluations At Work

[Radbird]

Do all companies do these?

Mine does. Since I work from home these days, I usually get the blender going, crank up the tunes, and let the re-wording fest begin!

What a crock.

[JL21]

On mine, they had an: Identify a Long Term Goal

I wrote: Retire with a Pension


Boss didn't laugh.

(sigh)

My office needs to loosen up

Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg describing interview questions.

"Mitch, where do you see yourself in five years?"

"Celebrating the five-year anniversary of you asking me that question".

[wart57]

The worst evaluation I have ever gotten was the one I did on myself....

[TabascoElvis]

Ugh... I'd rather have self-evals. We have these things called 360s where you have to fill out answers to the following:

List 3 things you'd like to see this person continue doing:
List 3 things you'd like to see this person start doing:
List 3 things you'd like to see this person stop doing:

Comments:

Seriously. What kind of crap is this? I'd like them to start signing their paycheck over to me. I'd like them to stop breathing for an extended amount of time. I'd like them to continue not breathing until I feel better.

And you have send these to 2 people to fill out about you.

[lukethedrifter]

I wish I could evaluate my "boss." It wouldn't be pretty.

[Arthur Dent]

Bump.

I need to finish writing up my goals and plans for this year before I go to bed tonight which is completely stupid since what I do this year won't be based much on my plans but on decisions made by management, changing business conditions, unpredictable circumstances, etc. I don't know what I'll be doing next week much less a year from now. Supposedly, we are evaluated based on these goals, but I really doubt it as that would be idiotic.

[Simbagal23]

Yep, these suck. No doubt developed by HR folks in order to keep their jobs, yet we're doing the work for them??! (my apologies to any HR folks on the board!) Anyway, our evaluations recently went to an online system, so I have to log on every time I complete something. The great thing is that everyone in my dept. basically has the same goals which are pushed down from upper management. Unless upper management changes the goals, we keep the same verbage every year. So, I don't really sweat it....and, yes, all of us typically receive "achieved", nobody ever receives an "excels or overachieved". So, um, what's the point???!