To find Work Appraisals excruciating

I too hating having my appraisals, and doing my teams. I fo7nd them largely pointless, and mainly used to give a grade which determined your salary increase (always minuscule %). I worked for a large retail group with a very stingy owner.
You would set future goals which would swiftly become irrelevant and business needs change so much.
I don't miss it.

I’ve got mine coming up. I can never be bothered with it all. I just want to come to work, do it and get paid. I just want to be Mrs Average, nothing more.

I agree.

I particularly hate setting goals for the next year. I always want to just write "my goal is to continue to do my job well" but apparently that isn't deemed acceptable, despite being very honest!

I previously worked in an organisation where the appraisal process was so granular and extensive that it actually prevented people from doing their actual work several weeks of the year. It was ludicrous. And moderation was completely based on how good you were at arguing and vehement you wanted to be about arguing and appealing to have your grade reassessed. The end of year process took months to conclude. And all that for an average bonus of about £500. Bonkers.

I now work for an organisation where I meet twice a year with my line manager who asks “how do you think you’ve been doing?” and I respond “I believe I’ve met my agreed targets and the team is working well” and he says “I agree, I’ll sign everything off” and that’s that.

I’ve no idea how my organisation manages underperformance, although we’re an industry heavily driven by very high bonuses related to overall financial and business outcomes which tends to focus people’s attention to their work, and as a company all our bonuses are interlinked with team, departmental and overall company goals so there’s a feeling of accountability and duty to colleagues to do well.

likewise @Funfuninthesunsun I hate doing them with my team, i hate doing mine with my manager a my team haste doing them to! Its definitely a tick box exercise in our organisation and not linked in anyway to pay or performance!

I hate them with a passion. I also hate doing them with my team. They take ages to do too which is particularly irritating when you're pushed for time to do your actual work.

I absolutely hate them too.

I just fight fire with fire.. oh you want waffle and management-speak do you? Ok.

Feel the same, my job is a fairly menial one that doesn't 'go anywhere' but we're still expected to sit through the process of reviews, goal setting etc, none of which have any impact on our pay. I wish they'd just leave us alone to do the job. The goal setting is particularly daft when you just do the same task every day with no scope for doing anything different!

Used to hate it.

And the fact you were always meant to be trying to ‘improve’ yourself.

Eff off and let me carry on with my humdrum job.