I keep taking on work outside my regular responsibilities and helping when other people need support. Somehow that still gets reduced to "meets expectations" every review cycle. There isn't much incentive to keep giving more when the outcome is the same anyway. Seven years of this has worn me down.
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Seven years of touching the hot stove and getting burned every time? Glad to see you are finally coming around but wow, it took forever...
The only way you get exceeds expectations is to bring in revenue or cut costs. Start giving "meets expectations" effort and youll feel a lot better. If you work at Fiserv you do not have a job that will ever provide you any sort of satisfaction or reward for doing a good job, so learn to give the minimal effort to make sure you have a paycheck coming in and find joy in life elsewhere.
Don't feel bad. Getting "exceeds" on a fairly regular basis will still get you walked out too. There aren't many jobs worth grinding yourself into nothing for. This is definitely not one of them.
So doing your job is "does not meet expectations". You need to go beyond your responsibilities to just tread water here.
@OP do what you can. Too much isnt good. Might give some stability too but wouldn't count on it. They fire with no hesitation here these days.
I just d-ck around now to help reduce stress. Just need to do slightly better than the worst 1 or 2 people on your team.
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/stop-giving-100-at-work-says-influencer-your-best-becomes-your-baseline-12133130/amp/1
I felt the exact same way.