Our FE lead is doing "performance evaluations" of every employee in her department. I've heard that one of our CSR's (in my opinion, a rather good one too, very few dips when she works) got dressed down for a good half-hour, with a highly negative evaluation (the two have constant personality clashes and the CSR has successfully complained about our lead's actions to management).
Anyways, what does this evaluation mean in terms of my actual job? I obviously am not worried about getting fired if my evaluation winds up being negative, but could it be used against me in other ways (as a reason to be transferred depts, to not be advanced further, to demote me from Customer Service to cashier, etc etc.)? Could it be treated as a write-up? Should I refuse to sign anything without my union rep present?
Most likely it can't hurt you. All the things you list that might be negative outcomes can happen just as easily whenever they want. It's just a yearly eval.
All of those things you have in parenthesis are possibilities with a really bad review/performance, but the review needn't be present to do those things anyway.
Don't worry too much about it. You don't have to sign it if you don't agree with it. They can't hold it against you in any professional way. Hell I told my manager that I was not going to fill it out and asked if that was all. Then left.
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Performance reviews are pretty useless. If you did good, no reward. If you did bad, no advice on improvement. And usually everyone walks out feeling differently about someone.
Performance reviews are pretty useless. If you did good, no reward. If you did bad, no advice on improvement. And usually everyone walks out feeling differently about someone.
That's how a co-manager I worked with awhile back felt. She said something along the lines of, "if I give someone a perfect performance review, I should be able to give that person a raise, and we'd keep a lot more employees if I could do that, but I can't, because of the f****** union. So because employees know regardless of how I rate them, nothing's going to change, it just ends up wasting everyone's time, and it's all thanks to the s***** union."
