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Apr. 16th, 2025 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatOne of the 'new and improved' performance review metrics that was rolled out this year was 're-grading' every employee.
(IDK, I guess they put all of us in grades (aka tiers, aka they're absolutely just re-inventing the top-down hierarchy) before, but then it was a SECRET. Now they've changed how many grades there are, and it's NOT SECRET.)
Not EXACTLY secret, anyway. I was told my grade during my annual review, and after some pushing (I tried to be tactful? I am not good at it, though), I was provided a 'general overview' of the tiers. Then my boss asked if I had any questions about it.
(I did, obviously. My job title was LITERALLY listed in the grade above the one I was given. But the company had already put out a video that was VERY CLEAR in saying 'if you think you've been graded wrong, you weren't' in almost those exact words, so I definitely wasn't going to ask about THAT.)
So instead I asked, as delicately and tactfully as I could (still not very, unfortunately), if my boss was allowed to tell me if everyone on the team was the same grade. (There are only three of us.) Cue the loooooooooooooooong pause. The answer was immediately obvious. To my boss' credit, they did eventually say yes, they could tell me, and no, the rest of the team was graded differently.
IN CONCLUSION: I no longer need to feel guilty any time I feel like my coworkers have been asked to do things I haven't! (I mean, I often do still feel guilty, but at least now I can tell myself to chill out about it.) Obviously I still feel salty about this entire situation, but I'm trying very hard to see the upsides, which even I can admit are numerous.
(IDK, I guess they put all of us in grades (aka tiers, aka they're absolutely just re-inventing the top-down hierarchy) before, but then it was a SECRET. Now they've changed how many grades there are, and it's NOT SECRET.)
Not EXACTLY secret, anyway. I was told my grade during my annual review, and after some pushing (I tried to be tactful? I am not good at it, though), I was provided a 'general overview' of the tiers. Then my boss asked if I had any questions about it.
(I did, obviously. My job title was LITERALLY listed in the grade above the one I was given. But the company had already put out a video that was VERY CLEAR in saying 'if you think you've been graded wrong, you weren't' in almost those exact words, so I definitely wasn't going to ask about THAT.)
So instead I asked, as delicately and tactfully as I could (still not very, unfortunately), if my boss was allowed to tell me if everyone on the team was the same grade. (There are only three of us.) Cue the loooooooooooooooong pause. The answer was immediately obvious. To my boss' credit, they did eventually say yes, they could tell me, and no, the rest of the team was graded differently.
IN CONCLUSION: I no longer need to feel guilty any time I feel like my coworkers have been asked to do things I haven't! (I mean, I often do still feel guilty, but at least now I can tell myself to chill out about it.) Obviously I still feel salty about this entire situation, but I'm trying very hard to see the upsides, which even I can admit are numerous.
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