Manager: I’m going to give you a 4/5 for your review because even though you’ve done great this year, there’s always room for improvement.
Company: You get an extra 4% bonus if you get a 5/5!
Me: 😑

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My favorite is “your performance was 5/5 this year but I’m only allowed to give out X amount of 5’s, Y amount of 4’s, etc., so I’ve got to make you a 4 this year!…”😒 sorry OP I’d be fuming

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I’m honestly not even mad, I’m just disappointed.

Good lord I would be enraged, I'm sorry OP.

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That's not fair! I'd raise my concerns about that. It's so subjective to hold someone to that standard.

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“That’s just how it is” is generally the feedback we get with our concerns.

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Managing 101. There's always room for improvement. Dangle that carrot just out of reach, because no one gets a perfect score. I absolutely hate that. I've never known anyone to ever get a perfect evaluation. I get there's room for improvement, but this system is broken.

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And if you do become perfect at your job, then your job duties are expanded.

That’s a manager you need to get away from. That sort of talk is great when you’re setting goals and the such. Not acceptable when it affects money.

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Update, I found out this bonus applies to everyone NOT on the sales team. So I don’t get this bonus + I only got 25% of my OTE bonus for 2023. And here I was thinking I was going to be able to treat myself for once 🙃

Usually I wouldn’t expect it, but it was an extra one time bonus based on a recent large investment into the company.
As for the 25%, yeah, it’s because a lack of overall deal inflow. Almost every client I’ve demoed to has bought the solution.

I would be like well what did you get? You have room for improvement as well.

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