February and March of each year is performance review time. As stated in previous threads management are wilfully giving employees poor reviews to put them on a Performance Improvement Plan so to fire them for cause or get them to quit without severance or unemployment.
Evil beings. In past threads people have stated that their managers would purposely state their MBOs or goals weren't met so they can deny employees of their bonuses.
"Improvement Needed" No bonus or raise. Oh well. Glad I do not count on the bonus for income to pay my bills.
On salary continuation, displaced year end, no raise LOL but bonus was up from last year.
SAYL
Different parts of the company offers different experiences - good and bad. I got my review today. "Performing".
Pay raise and bonus are pretty much the same last year. In Technology.
Perf excellence flag over 100% target, in Risk and compliance
In tech, I received exceeded performance review, no complaints, no asks for change, keep doing what I'm doing. 97% of target for bonus. A raise not large enough to cover gas and car maintenance. Oh, but I did get layed off. Enough said.
Got my review. Performing with good feedback from clients/partners. Also got the bonus and a very small salary increase. I’m in marketing
I can see my department using similar tactics. First they had a job family project that basically demoted certain people with the expectation their role would change. Second they implemented a policy stating if you had a relative in the department one of you had to go. Third they implemented aggressive metrics which led to people leaving and will probably cause needs improvement reviews.
Evil times
The person below was not ranked by this group as being in the bottom 10% that's why he skated by. Poor performing reviews that leads to PIPs are used to fire the 10% without severance or unemployment. But event then in my friends case it was done out of retribution and vindictiveness.
Wells is a big company. So different parts of the company offers different experiences - good and bad. I got my review today. "Performing".
Pay raise and bonus are pretty much the same last year.
Some managers are not very good ones. But not all of them are like what you described.
BTW, I am a Apps Sys Engineer.