Appraisal concerns ignored

[Judepol]

I had my annual appraisal with my old supervisor and new line manager. Both praised me and understood the challenges I had been up against due to high staff turnover and me having to cover vacant roles for another team and train up another team leaving me feel overwhelmed. Plus other teams caused issues I had to resolve.

The senior manager signed it off, he praised my hard work but I was disgusted as he said I talked about other teams a lot and not my performance. What he did not understand was I did talk about my performance but highlighted training and recruitment issues impacted my efficiency and wellbeing. It seems like he wants to avoid taking responsibility for the issues. I am fed up of feeling undervalued. I have a lot of knowledge about the organisation and processes as I know the history which if I left this knowledge would be lost as people don't know it.

What is the point in feeding back issues you have come up against if a senior manager is not interested in hearing them.

So both praised you and signed off on it, but now you’re pissed off cos unofficially he gave your feedback that you can’t blame others for your performance?

The others were great praising me but I don't like that the senior manager tried to ignore that others had caused me issues. Another colleague had to escalate staff bullying to him and he did nothing about it. Clearly does not like issues as he has to sort them.

Or he could mean don't blame yourself if you had these issues to deal with. Very unclear feedback.

What you need to understand is that appraisals are just box ticking exercises imposed on your managers by the senior management team. They make bugger all difference to anything (except that they’re sometimes used as a way of avoiding giving you performance related pay or promotion). Employers pretend it’s a two way process, for your benefit, yada yada, but that’s corporate bollocks.

If there are issues with your workload, bullying etc, you need to raise these separately, possibly with support from your union.

@HeddaGarbled Thank you. I know you are right. It is a box ticking exercise. They do not care about staff wellbeing as long as the work is done. I will raise again with my new line manager and may need to get the union involved.