Archived It's that time of year...team member/self reviews!

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How many of you non-exempt basically have to write these at home? Off-stage time for a team lead is unheard of now a days. Yet, these reviews need to be insightful, thoughtful, and personal.

But don't spend more than 10 minutes writing each review.....
 

TLs have to do one of the worlds more obnoxious management exercises in existence called the self review.
You have to basically call yourself out for being a bad employee because if you say anything good about yourself it makes you look like you think you have no room for improvement.
It becomes a balancing trick of saying just enough either way.
Of course this is just a cheat for the bosses so they can copy it and feed it back to you when they do their own reviews of your performance.

They also have to do TM reviews which suck big time if they aren't just copy and pasting them.
Because if they are honest and say a TM is good the chances are it will be changed because there isn't enough money for raises, so they will have to downgrade the TM even if it isn't deserved.
Or it could be someone the TL barely works with but has to do an evaluation anyway, doesn't matter - fake it.
Writing an decent evaluation isn't easy, I've done hundreds over the years, if you want to do it right.
To have people second guessing you makes it worse.

However, never do it on your own time.
They have to pay you for that dreck.
 
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They also have to TM reviews which suck big time if they aren't just copy and pasting them.
Because if they are honest and say a TM is good the chances are it will be changed because there isn't enough money for raises, so they will have to downgrade the TM even if it isn't deserved.

What's funny is you often get reviews that will have EX checked off for everything, but because they have to downgrade, the final grade will be E or even IE; they don't bother changing the actually review, just the final grade.
 
Target really cares for it's employees.

But not enough to allocate payroll so your supervisor can give you a meaningful review.
 
My store is already doing this "talk." I have heard from a little birdy that we can only afford to give one 'O' review for the entire store.
 
How many of you non-exempt basically have to write these at home? Off-stage time for a team lead is unheard of now a days. Yet, these reviews need to be insightful, thoughtful, and personal.

But don't spend more than 10 minutes writing each review.....

Back when reviews were MS Word based I did this all the time. Even now I'll make notes when watching TV to input into the form on the Talent Management system. I have written TM reviews at home too. One year I had 42 reviews to do. Much of that did not happen on site.
 
I didn't have TLs at the time so I had to write 70 reviews for TMs I knew for only 3 months. I was told I could only have one EX rating out of 70 TMs. So if you were actually an EX , you had to be the best. Lame. Anyway, most reviews I've seen were copy and paste - just changed the final rating and TM information.
 
Sounds like a silly way to go about doing things.
 
I have to write reviews for more than 10 TLs at my store because we're down so many ETLs and it would be a "conflict of interest" for the STL and HR to do it. Which I get, but still frustrates me to no end...as if I don't already have enough to do while running GE, SF, and LOG in a AA volume store.
 
last year I had to write every single front end review by myself which i can't remember how many there where now but it was a ton. I had almost two weeks of off stage time to do the reviews, my review, the schedule, and other ETL crap because we didn't have an ETL or another TL.
 
last year I had to write every single front end review by myself which i can't remember how many there where now but it was a ton. I had almost two weeks of off stage time to do the reviews, my review, the schedule, and other ETL crap because we didn't have an ETL or another TL.

Good grief. That sounds brutal.
 
My last review was done by my CTL who had already quit, so one of the Sr. TLs gave it to me.

Throughout the review she couldn't really understand the opportunities as she saw them as actually very important strengths, in the end we pretty much both had a laugh and agreed it was bs. (I'm a PA).
 
Back when reviews were MS Word based I did this all the time. Even now I'll make notes when watching TV to input into the form on the Talent Management system. I have written TM reviews at home too. One year I had 42 reviews to do. Much of that did not happen on site.
It's def time consuming
 
How many of you non-exempt basically have to write these at home? Off-stage time for a team lead is unheard of now a days. Yet, these reviews need to be insightful, thoughtful, and personal.
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But don't spend more than 10 minutes writing each review.....
Ya really I'm still working on mine n I've gotta two different points of views from my etl's on how it's done. This will be my first one n it took me over 40 m just to get started get numbers n go over what I need to jot down with my etl.. My WEAKNESS is Prob the worse one to put down! My etl ( who I think doesn't care for me much) say I lack accountability n integrity what type of leader is that if u don't take accountability !! It's 4am on my day off n I'm up thinking about Target! Smh
 
My store is already doing this "talk." I have heard from a little birdy that we can only afford to give one 'O' review for the entire store.

My store only gave out 1 O last year. Most of the Ex's went to people that were capped because that's the only way they even get a raise.

I'm good enough to be offered various open TL positions at my store but I only get E's because literally every logistics TL and several overnight TMs are capped. I'd be angry about it but the difference in pay is less than $.10 anyways.
 
A few team members in good standing at my location never got a review at all last year. ETLs and supposedly the HRBP as well notified and did not seem to care.
 
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My last review was done by my CTL who had already quit, so one of the Sr. TLs gave it to me.

Throughout the review she couldn't really understand the opportunities as she saw them as actually very important strengths, in the end we pretty much both had a laugh and agreed it was bs. (I'm a PA).
I had this problem last year. Review was a crap shoot. "Any questions" only if you are gonna hold me accountable for this crap...since you can't see it or explain how they got it. This year should be fun as well.
 
I had this problem last year. Review was a crap shoot. "Any questions" only if you are gonna hold me accountable for this crap...since you can't see it or explain how they got it. This year should be fun as well.

When they say any questions ask for a list of specific things that you can do that will get you to the next level.
Things that if you do them will guarantee a bigger raise for next year so that you can follow them to the letter.
Also ask that if you could get it written down that would be great.

If they tell you that this isn't really the right place or time for such a conversation, ask when would be a good time because you really want to be the best employee you can.
If you say all this with the eagerness of a puppy dog greeting his master coming home from work, you might get away with it.
 
When they say any questions ask for a list of specific things that you can do that will get you to the next level.
Things that if you do them will guarantee a bigger raise for next year so that you can follow them to the letter.
Also ask that if you could get it written down that would be great.

If they tell you that this isn't really the right place or time for such a conversation, ask when would be a good time because you really want to be the best employee you can.
If you say all this with the eagerness of a puppy dog greeting his master coming home from work, you might get away with it.
Sadly with my old ctl I could. He'd understand it was sarcastic though.

I couldn't ask questions because the review was so far off the brainstorm session notes nobody could figure where the old tl came up with stuff. Like the notes said great effort but work on being team player and they wrote great teamwork, hard worker but needs to support pfresh team better. Wtf?
 
Sadly with my old ctl I could. He'd understand it was sarcastic though.

I couldn't ask questions because the review was so far off the brainstorm session notes nobody could figure where the old tl came up with stuff. Like the notes said great effort but work on being team player and they wrote great teamwork, hard worker but needs to support pfresh team better. Wtf?


There was either a) more than one person writing the review and they weren't allowed to read what the other person had written. b) the person was having a stroke when they wrote it or c) Sarah Palin wrote it.
 
There was either a) more than one person writing the review and they weren't allowed to read what the other person had written. b) the person was having a stroke when they wrote it or c) Sarah Palin wrote it.
I think it was d) the tl writing it decided he was leaving so screw what they wanted him to write and just randomly write leaderly sounding junk. Which required two additional pages attached he wrote so much. It was comical watching the new ctl try to read it without giving away what a farce it was.
 
What's funny is you often get reviews that will have EX checked off for everything, but because they have to downgrade, the final grade will be E or even IE; they don't bother changing the actually review, just the final grade.
I do that on purpose because I think the whole process is a bunch of bullshit! Never has any of the 4 hrs I've had said anything. They don't read them anyways.
 
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