Clearly it is a lie that each year you get a fresh start when the first conversation with my new supervisor is about the past three years of rankings they reviewed in CareerConnect. No such thing as a fresh start.
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@np ha. The story that never happened. How about we fight for all of our employees based on their actual contributions. The supervisors can’t do anything to fix this. The system forces them to PIP people who do not deserve it. We may as well just rotate everyone through and take turns being PIPed is what you are suggesting?
@nn same thing happened to me and just like your experience it was communicated to me verbally several days after the rank session. Nothing in writing. They know what they are doing is wrong so don’t want any paper trail.
EM lowered the bar for getting promotions to provide more PIP fodder in 28-29 bucket.
HR realized that if only promoted top performers then there would be no sacrificial lambs in that group.
Beware of a promotion.
Counterpoint - we need to know if you’ve been on a PIP recently. Really we need to know if it’s in the last five years. If you’re somebody we want to keep around and you’re near the bottom you want your supervisor to know the consequences of a second PIP so they can fight for you.
I placed a non-HiPo DEI engineer below my other two engineers in a ranking session. Everyone in the ranking session agreed wholeheartedly that those two engineers outperformed the DEI engineer.
RG numbers get posted for communication and the DEI engineer was 26 points above the other two engineers. I brought that mistake to the attention of HR and received a visit to verbally explain the situation(nothing in writing).
HR manager said that multiple top ranked persons in that DEI demographic had transferred out of the affiliate such that the target average RG for that demographic was missed. The 26 additional RG points were added by HR after the ranking session to achieve the target average for that demographic.
I had to communicate an unearned ranking to a mo--n. The mo--n actually believed her earned that ranking.
The ranking system is rigged in many ways.
because being able to judge you should be component and since they are not they have to follow some one else's judgment
They lie lie lie to us. Supervisors look and keep dropping those who are dropping and keep hipos ranked high. It is total Bs and rigged.
@gd happened to a friend of mine as well. Worst part is the friend convinced the room to drop the sponsored hipos ranking to excellent and then after the session a few days later was told the hipo was moved back up to outstanding after the session!
Past 3 years ranking lets the Supervisor know if it is OK to drop you.
I know a Supervisor that rightfully placed a sponsored female 3rd in his list, under two non sponsored great achieving normal guys. The manager challenged this in the ranking session and the Supervisor doubled down and described how she consistently failed to meet expectations and the two guys achieved far more.
That Supervisor was dropped the maximum allowed back then, and placed in a non supervisor position.
Supervisors have a real need to know if an id--t was placed at the top in the previous 3 years so they place the id--t politically and not based on Performance.
Why would they look at the past 3 unless looking to run you off. Some of these BUs or orgs lucky to keep people 18 months lately.
I recommend not reminding supervisors of your past negative rankings. Some care what the system says and some do not. However, no matter which kind of supervisor you have, dwelling on a past ranking will just reinforce that ‘label’ in their head.
If you liked your last assessment result, then it is time to remind them. ‘Hey, I really appreciated getting an E in my last group and want to make sure my performance is at that level or better. What can I do?’ The psychology works the same way; they remember what you tell them.
It is simply the unofficial way to rank you in your new group that does not upset the apple cart.
Removing restrictions on how much a person can move each year had absolutely zero to do with moving anyone up, it was to enable giving NSI to any well ranked person that an executive wanted to remove.
I know someone that was always top ranked, no sponsor, low CL, amazing worker, but he refused to hide an issue on GCGV so the VP instructed his Supervisor to drop him to NSI. The guy immediately was hired by a reputable company and is far better off.
I lost all respect for that VP and that Supervisor.