Working for the US Postal Service in management we were given “goals” every year, and through a formula only understood only by top management or perhaps by Professor Hawking, we were granted a salary increase. Of course the goals we were given were totally unattainable!

So Ms. Amisja, how did it go? We're you granted a prize (promotion & pay hike)? Or just words. Personally, congratulations for completing the exercise. ?

I'm suddenly reminded about the case of Yunus Bakhsh and the way it uncovered the psychopathy that seems to be rampant within the NHS management psyche.

I don't think anyone on this site who knows you doubts your skill and professionalism.

It'll all turn out, Amisja. Hope you'll post the results, too. I find bosses are pressured by their bosses and often appraisals focus on your areas needing improvement rather than strengths. Not really much balance to appraisal. But I like my bosses currently and what they lack in one area they make up for in another. What is HE? Are you in the US? I don't think so...

I never used formal appraisal lists, preferring to see results without an annual report. Systematic check lists are a stupid idea, since they don't take into consideration actual, individual circumstances.
Anyway, good luck with it on the morrow. Let us know the result.

I was building a luxury hotel for a client and he had brought on the hotel manager before the hotel was ready to open due to the usual construction delays that go with a hotel build, changes, etc. It didn't take me too long to realize that the hotel manager was stealing, not that I was surprised because he was a real weasel of a person and the head of Mormons in the area, so I brought my findings to the client as it is my job to protect his interests. The evidence was black and white with a pretty strong paper trail but the hotel manager was so far up the client's butt that we had nicknamed him Bootsy as that's all you could see of him sticking out the client's ass whenever he was around. The next morning the hotel manager was called into the boardroom and the client tore a strip off of him but this cat was so slick and so sleazy that within an hour he had the whole thing turned around and was blaming me for stirring up trouble and undermining morale. I had taken the job almost to completion after picking it up part way through construction and several million dollars in the hole, brought it back to profitability through many long hours and frankly I was now sick of the job but couldn't leave because in my business code you finish what you start. This was an overseas job so I needed a work permit and as the time for renewal of the permit approached there was no sign that the paperwork had been processed, turns out the hotel manager had played politics and made sure my paperwork got lost at immigration. The day my work permit expired the client and the hotel manager called a snap meeting and gave me 'the bad news', I told them it wasn't a problem, business is business. I left my staff on the job as their work permits were tied to the project and partnered with another local in a new business. The heads of department told the client that the job would be put behind by 6 months and to expect losses of at least a million bucks as I was the only person who knew where everything was, it turned out that they underestimated the delays and the costs, closer to a year in delays and the overruns ran into the millions. In the end the hotel manager screwed the client over completely and he lost the hotel to the bankers. You can't save some clients from themselves, no matter how hard you try.

Off with their heads!!!!!!!!!!!