Posted by Dinah on April 28, 2006, at 0:57:17
In reply to The Cost of Quality., posted by Shame on April 27, 2006, at 13:26:38
Any review I mercifully haven't gotten lately wouldn't have "met expectations", but I do know what you mean. I know people who work themselves up to a level where expectations are so high that they just meet them, rather than exceed them as they've done all their lives up to that point. And it's a devastating blow to just "meet expectations".
But I think it might be exactly that. You might be at a level where expectations are extraordinarily high and meeting them at your level still makes you far more valuable to the company than people who exceed lower expectations. They really ought to come up with new terminology for those reviews. Like "meets increasingly high expectations in a praiseworthy manner".
Companies need to work harder at giving excellent feedback to their most valuable workers.
But you do know that the people around you respect your knowledge and dedication and while they might expect the best from those few that reach your position, they also know that not many people could meet those expectations.
poster:Dinah
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