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Boy am I mad!

So I haven't been posting much the last year, wanna know why? I couldn't give a f[/b]uck what you think, I am going to tell you anyway. This year was a promotion year for me - the first big promotion to kick-start serious 6 figure GBP. So I have been working my tight ***-cheeks harder than Katie at a family wedding. [b]Promotion denied.

Obligatory Katie slam, for old times sake. Big shout out to Katie!

Incidently you can stop reading at this point, what follows is a boring rant primarily for my own theraputic purposes.

First I need to explain my company's rather complicated performance management process (that's consultant speak for "How my boss tells me ********* I am"). This also requires me to explain a bit about how work at my company is organised.

Within the organisation, we are grouped according to skill type. Lets call my skill: Strongarm Executives to Liberate Lire (SELL). My company then has projects where they will cherry-pick people with specific skills (from different groups) to staff the project. Each individual will work on a number of projects during the year. The key thing being, that we rarely work with the same people for consequtive projects, or with the people in SELL. At the end of a project (or at 6 month intervals if the project is long) each indiviual gets a performace review and rating. The ratings are something like:

1) Genius (5%)
2) Bloody Good (20%)
3) Good (40%)
4) A Bit Shi[/b]t (30%)
5) Sh[b]it (5%)

At the end of the year all project performace reviews are collated by SELL (in my case) and a final rating for the year is aggregated, and decided by SELL.

Additionally, we have a "laddering" process, which forces the distribution in brackets above. So it is not unusual to get a rating and then have it "laddered down". Normally this laddering process occurs at the only at end of the year within SELL, but if we work on a big project with many people, the project will ladder people into the distribution above each 6 months. In theory those people should then not be laddered again at the end of the year.

You crazy cats following me?

For the entirity of this year, I have been working on a single big project, for which I receieved two ratings, both "Bloody Good". Both of these ratings went through the laddering process, and in one I started at "Genius" and was laddered down to "Bloody Good". In such a situation I should be fairly bang on certain to get an overall rating of "Bloody Good" for the year, which incidently is the requirement for promotion.

You know what's coming next huh?

SELL decided to ladder me down to "Good" - not good enough for promotion. Bear in mind that the people who decided this have not worked directly with me all year.

On Thursday I have a meeting with the ringleader for this bunch, and I find out why. The answers better be good, because I am very close to leaving.

Anyone read all that?

Nope. Just a random sentence here and there.

I was going to compile some not-so-random sentences in a complex FTFY but I lost interest when I did try to read it.

Sorry.

Everyone knows that it takes schmoozing to get a promotion, not work skills.

Exactly in the Corporate world it's all about how far you can shove your head up your manager's *** to get a promotion. I feel ya though because I've been in your same shoes before I changed careers myself.

If I were Pat, I'd be more upset that no one will read my entire post.

Yeah schmoozing is important. I schmoozed the wrong guy.

You know what I am saying Joph. Lazy ******** It's not like I barrage you shi[b][/b]ts with paragraphs all day.

I know the feeling, the place I work at has semi-annual reviews of service. For the first 18 months I did all the extra stuff and put some effort it, got a raise each time got elevated in position all was grand.

Once I got far enough though they started putting me on special projects, sort of kind of cream of the crop type stuff. The problem with cream of the crop stuff is that the way the review structure is set up that you can't possibly advance by doing that work unless you apply for the next job up the line which pays only pennies more and is 3 times the work. Since I'm not looking to make this job my career I dont see the point.

You work for Ford Credit don't you?

That was my old job and they did that exactly regardless of the reviews done by Team Leads/Managers.

I think Pat is really upset because he cut back on posting here for no reason.

Glad to hear you got denied on your Promotion Pat.

Keep working on those tight ***-cheeks and sucking corporate ****...I'm sure eventually you'll get what’s cumming to you.