Overheard some employees advocating for this. They appeared to be very young. Not my conversation, but yeah, I had to butt in. They were of the opinion Peer Performance Reviews were pretty much the same as LIKES on Social Media with only the option for positive input, no down voting. The innocence of inexperience.
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Reviews have always been a popularity exercise. I say that while knowing I have certainly benefitted more than if my contributions were rated accurately.
Guessing they are looking for people willing to throw their peers under the bus.
We were cracking up as there is one guy who does absolutely nothing, is MIA a lot from mtgs and has the nerve to ask for feedback. Since most folks are nice, we say he is a nice guy, gets along with the Team etc. What else can we say? We also have a very dedicated and very technical and hard working PM and this dead weight had the nerve to give the PM who nobody can say anything negative about a very negative review of course without any merit.
I haven’t submitted for peer “mandatory” feedback for the past 3 years and nothing happened
Nor have I. And haven't asked anyone to give me peer feedback and I don't fill out the forms for those asking me for their peer feedback. Stupid exercise. If you criticize, people can figure out who said it and then it only piles on the toxicity of AT&T. And just kissing @ss for the sake of completing it accomplishes nothing. Make directors and above do the job they are paid to do.
"Miss the days of arriving eager to work 9-10 hours and then leaving at the end of the day with a sense of having accomplished something"
Right behind you. Gonna be the longest 39 months of my life. Feels like a prison sentence now.
“4 more years and I can put it all behind me.”
Garbage employee.
Just make it private and no one can see them but you. Most just ask their friends and so it goes that you decorate my palm and I will yours. Such B.S.
"many of our leadership are detractors to the most rapid path to sustained success"
Priceless. Needs to be a thread topic.
I coordinate work assignments for my coworkers. Assignments are rather random except when a specific skill is required or when the acceptable margin for error is near zero. I clean up behind some team members. It's the job. I am the devil come review time. 85% of the peer reviews I get are terrible. :-) Haters gonna Hate.
"many of our leadership are detractors to the most rapid path to sustained success"
Full Stop
Par for the course. You carry the workload of a unfit employee and then they get to critique your performance? What could possibly go wrong? I get that AT&T is a business and it isn't the place of line employees to determine the best path forward, but many of our leadership are detractors to the most rapid path to sustained success.
"haven’t submitted for peer “mandatory” feedback for the past 3 years"
Never experienced a mandate for peer review in 27 years. Are employees being told this is now mandatory? Can we Peer Review the performance of the C-Suite and members of the Board of Directors? No, because Peer Reviews are nothing more than a popularity contest. AT&T, please find your way again.
Miss the days of arriving eager to work 9-10 hours and then leaving at the end of the day with a sense of having accomplished something. I have not used a ATT service or product in 15 years, and use every opportunity to steer people to better choices with our competitors. Only about 5% of my family even know I work here. 4 more years and I can put it all behind me.
Definitely the least professional aspect of AT&T's performance review process. People slinging mud.
Naive sn0tnoses.
AT&T will do anything to cause more division between employees.
8 people on our team. 3 should have been released years ago. Peer reviews generally result in 4 decent reviews and then 3 stakes through the heart. Horrible idea. Leadership should get rid of peer reviews as they provide no value.
I haven’t submitted for peer “mandatory” feedback for the past 3 years and nothing happened
our bu had mandatory peer feedback from 5 coworkers for the last few years. fortunately, i dont believe they required that of us this year. You pick who to ask. They aren't mandatory to respond.
i read the responses the first year we did this. And never again. Just creates bad feelings. You dont know who slagged you off to the boss, and they kind of have to with a 'what can bob do to do better' question, so it just makes you hate all of them.