It's Evaluation Time

There it is, a manila envelope with your name on it stamped with "Confidential" across the front. It is that time when your supervisor decides how valuable you are to this department.

Do you:
1) Exceed Expectations
2) Meet Expectations
3) Does not meet Expectations

My thoughts: Subjective descriptions to fill someone's biased opinions.

There are the columns for your supervisor to appraise your performance, overall ratings, comments, areas of successes and areas of improvement. You talked about it with your supervisor and the cherry on top is how you have to sign and date your evaluation.

Now it goes hidden in your personnel file in HR, but will any of these issues get addressed? For some departments it is an instrumental tool to measure how well the employees are doing. For other departments it is a necessary task to cross off the list of HR requirements. Where does your department fall?

Only advice I can give you: Be honest.

There is absolutely no point in hiding how you feel about your work environment, your relationships with co-workers, the positives or the negatives or your area. If you hold in your comments, you could prevent change from occurring. If you hold in your comments, you may explode when least expected.