In most cases, they exist more as a tool to justify job cuts or to pave the way for someone else's promotion, often someone who may not fully deserve it. These ratings rarely reflect your actual achievements, skills, or true potential. Don’t take them personally, and definitely don’t let them make you question your worth or abilities. More often than not, it’s just another layer of corporate theater.
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Ratings and performative performance theater had more of a perceived value or at least logic behind it when the company was growing in size and profits. This created an environment where there was more money to promote, hire, give bonuses and/or move the lever on raises where it would matter. Now with so many rounds of layoffs exposing the "emperor has no clothes" fiction that high performance ratings mean anything in terms of job safety or longevity...the underlying structures and process of ratings just appears increasingly as the facade it probably always has been. I've seen way too many people that were given high ratings or even promotions that were laid off a few months later -over the past 5 years. None of the previous performance theater mattered for those people when the time came to save money and cut people. Shareholder value overrides almost anything over the individual.
I haven’t taken it seriously since I got a highly successful and got the same percentage raise as a coworker with a successful rating.
@an This.
If you get a low rating and you care about keeping your job then you should take it seriously. It does mark you.
Honestly, this is cope.