Today, I had my half-year performance review. My boss arrived 15 minutes late, paid basically no attention to my presentation, and left 30 minutes early. I guess I’ll go fuck myself then. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had my performance review at work. Under the "oral communication" category my boss wrote that I "act like an asshole." FML
Today, my boss told me that my attitude to work is awesome and that he'd follow my example of coming in half-an-hour early every day from now on. I relish those 30 minutes as the only time I can get work done without him constantly interrupting me. So much for that. FML
Today, my boss made me give a presentation to several senior company officials about the serious financial losses our division has made this year. Barely an hour later, my boss had palmed all the blame off onto me and gotten me fired. FML
Today, my boss came to my cubicle to give me my annual performance bonus. I was asleep at my desk. FML
Today, my boss finally checked the presentation I have been working on for three weeks. She called me into her office, and told me everything was dreadful, and requested me to start from scratch. It's due in half an hour. FML
Today, my new supervisor arrived after my old one had transferred away and we had a quick evaluation meeting. As it turns out, I'm not actually a good employee like I thought. I just had a shitty boss who didn't care enough to let me know I wasn't meeting company standards. FML
Today, I had my six month employee review. My manager said that my attendance was good, and I was exceeding my targets performance wise. My reward, a five cent per hour pay cut. Apparently the rate at which I started is too high to meet their current pay scale. FML
Today, my boss yelled at me for leaving on time. After months of management hounding us about our overtime, I get in trouble for doing what I was supposed to do. FML
Today, I was scolded by my boss, all because I can finish most tasks in a quarter of the time it takes him, and he doesn't want to be shown up. FML
Today, I received a company-wide email from my boss, praising a coworker's extra effort at improving our line of business. The coworker's efforts were a direct copy-and-paste of a plan I put together three months ago. No one cared when I gave the presentation. FML
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core01 30
How long was your performance review speech??
RichardPencil 32
Get your resume ready!
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RichardPencil 32
Get your resume ready!
core01 30
How long was your performance review speech??
mando 10
His performance was probably great, maybe the man had public speaking fears and you shouldn't take it as a bad result. ******* yourself could be great if you're alone.
Chazzster 32
Unless you are a doctoral student, there is no reason your performance review presentation shouldn’t have been summed up in 15 minutes. Learn to summarize and get to the point. It’s better to let people ask questions about what they want to know more about than to put them to sleep with an over-long presentation. I shudder to think how long your presentation was going to be if boss left 30 minutes early.
lukey101 26
It was my boss who scheduled an hour for it, and I spent a few days summarising & quantifying my last 6-month’s work. Not sure what you do, but half a year of my achievements can’t be detailed in 15 minutes. Thanks for the assumption nevertheless
Chazzster 32
So despite the schedule, 15 minutes is what your boss actually allowed you. Learn to work with that time limit. You don’t have to go into all the technical details to simply list what you accomplished. Let your audience ask questions - They will be far more interested than if you bore them with details they are not interested in. In my career I gave many talks and presentations. Unless you are a specialist giving a talk to other specialists who are interested in that particular subject it’s much better to be brief and summarize than to drone on when your audience is not interested. That can be difficult for a specialist like an engineer, because you are interested in the subject and fully aware of all the many details your job entails. But unless your boss is equally interested in that level of detail (which is almost never the case) then you risk them “tuning out” and once you lose your audience’s attention its really hard to get it back. Obviously there was a miscommunication between your boss’s expectations and what you delivered. Next time while planning your presentation get some feedback on exactly what level of detail your boss wants. By the way a few props (physical samples of interesting related stuff) and pictures will help hold the attention on non-specialists. Look, you cannot change your boss’s attention span and personality. You have to learn to work with that. You have to make the change. Otherwise it will impact your career.
lukey101 26
Sorry just to be clear, I didn’t ask what you do and I couldn’t care less. I wasn’t asking you or anyone for advice, merely venting a frustration. But if I do need advice on anything from public speaking to engineering, I’ll know who to come to!