You bring up another good point Catherine ... this ' you have to walk on water' to get the highest percent achievable raise is crap. In my working ventures I have seen people get promotions instead of raises. The promotion monies come from another budget. Management plays around this way thinking that the 'typical' employee can't figure this 'game' out. Then you end up saying ' what's the point' because the entire game playing gives you such a headache.
Heather -----Original Message----- From: Catherine McKay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:25 PM To: Heather; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: under [blank] NJC --- Heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And remember, your performance review (and relative > pay raises) will not be > based on how well you do your job, but rather on how > others *perceive* how > well you do your job. > > *and this 'perception' is the disease of our > workplaces today. at least > 'perception' does not work in my profession ... > never did... never will. > perception never gets the job done.* > In our workplace, they've started this program on how to hand out "merit" increases to management (since we're not part of the union). It is possible to get the hightest merit increase which is, I think, 6% paid out as an annual bonus (this is government, so there's no profit motive) if you're super-super-excellent and if the deputy minister OKs it (the deputy minister is the top civil servant in our ministry). Getting the DM's OK is almost impossible to begin with but, to add insult to injury, *they* (whoever they are) have also decreed that no more than 20% of staff can get this so-called excellent-employee highest bonus (anyone else can get from 0%-3% for being mediocre). Now maybe 20% is somehoe statistically sound (what do I know?) or maybe it's just a number plucked out of a hat (most likely) but, like I asked my boss the other day, what if - WHAT IF - there were 30% of employees who were really excellent? What if??? Oh, what's the point... ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
