I've got an appraisal at work next week. Nothing gets me closer to telling them to stuff their job where-the-sun-don't than the annual appraisal. It's not that I fear falling-short; I can, and sometimes do, do my job standing on my head. It's just that the whole HR cavalcade of corporate fanny really gets in amongst me.
I don't know why it should anger me so much; it just does. I suppose it's the fact that its avowed intention is to make you feel better about things whilst it's doing the exact opposite. It's spirit-sapping stuff. For example, they sent us a document to fill out prior to our appraisal meetings. Its name? Competency Framework. What does that even mean? As Alexei Sayle once pointed out: unless you teach woodwork, using the word "workshop" marks you out as a twat. Ditto "framework".
Why can't HR confine itself to payroll and discipline? That's the real point of all the psycho-twaddle, personnel doesn't have enough to do, and needs to salve its conscience. The robust, fully-embracing, methodology-implementing, benefits-realising bastards.
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