And you think you're doing well. No complaints from anyone about your work and then by end of year, you get inconsistently meets and some flippant comments that you're not helping enough or your work contained errors?
That was mind blowing since no one complained to me and my middle year reviews had been glowing. This was just something that happened in the past that I thought about as we're coming up on end of year reviews.
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my understanding is that for some areas, the IM rating is rotated around from person to person; i.e it's a strategy used to meet the ball curve requirement and at the same time protect the team from being laid off, so long as no one person gets the IM two consecutive reviews
My manager promised us that if she gets an IM then we will also get an IM for making her look bad. Lol how selfish is that
Reviews and their ratings serve no purpose especially if you are on the list to get laid off, had a exceeds going into the new year and was promptly laid off once received a meets during mid-year - wtf 😒
Laid off, had a ghost IM review in workday. (Didn't even know I had one in there, until someone else who was also laid off told me to check).
So I was confused. Left on good terms. Logged on and seen that. IM was due to some 'error' that was discovered from a previous year.
Yeah so instead of evaluating my performance for the here and now which was exemplary, they use that instead. And explain that's the reason it was IM.
Keep in mind which is total BS. The year this supposedly happened i received a great review, so it's done and over finalized. So that should have no bearing on current performance.
To he ultimately honest I think the IM rating was to teach a lesson. A punishment if you will because I refused to relocate.....
I have my suspicions too that that is accurate, it's awful funny that when trying to stay in contact with a certain person that signed off on all this because im a decent person and im okay the dust has settled. they're avoiding me at all costs. Short curt responses, never reaching out etc.
I think about it alot and in a way. Its hard to think that I would have that much power over someone. They keep you at arms length, holding a grudge refusing to communicate. That to me would take way more energy to keep that up that just being accepting and being someone's friend. Life's too short for that my friend.
@ef Seems generally true (per what I've seen) unless you only got the IM because you're new. But if that's true, hopefully your manager has enough sense to tell you that's the reason you got the IM so you won't think you're about to be fired.
If you get IM, you'll probably get laid off/termed soon.
Then set SMART goals and use them to dispute your ratings. People who complain about this have stupid goals and they don’t take ownership of them , you let others manage them and the narrative. Document document and document. Every 1:1, etc.
My manager said if you are high cost market area you will receive less than meets because your salary is too high. He want to reserve his bonus and merit increase pool for flyover states.
@aw some managers routinely give IM Ratings to new employees solely because they're new and can't be expected to know everything yet. it's one way to meet their (ridiculous) forced IM quota. maybe that's what happened in your case.
@ak technically 15% for IM and Does Not Meet.
I’m preparing myself for IM. I feel like it has been predetermined and no amount of work can change that trajectory. I’m the new guy on the team. I’m just ready to be done with it.
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Yup.
Absolutely correct. Corroborated by my manager.
Over 20% need to be IM in my group. IM last year, meets at check in.
Wanna bet it is IM again?
I had the opposite last year in mid year was given exceeds the year end meets. pure BS!!
Someone in every team must get the inconsistently meets. That is the new norm. I saw someone getting fired not laid off and the reasoning was their inconsistently meets. Basically if your boss gives you that rating they are lining you up
No, only stories. However, that's also why they changed the mid year to pass/fail. No more glowing mid year reviews.