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sounds like a dumb reason to fail someone

Last week I shared about my performance review being conducted by someone who was not my manager (a designer who has only been with the company a couple of years, I’ve been here over 7 yrs), who didn’t know I had accepted a promotion and brought me a 3% merit increase.

As an aside: My new boss shared with me that he got my new direct report a 4% raise.

So I pushed back to both my reviewer and my new boss - the reviewer agreed with me and did what he could (not much), in addition i pushed back to my new manager, who also didn’t get much done. So I’m at 3%. I also reached out to the SVP who came to me with the promotion and asked for advice “I agree you need to fight for your salary!”

So everyone I’ve approached has agreed - 3% is bull.

Also on the day of the announcement of my promotion - which wasn’t shared company wide like most promotion announcements - one of my major stakeholders - a SVP - panicked and reached out to my skiplevel worried I’d no longer be serving them. “Don’t worry he will still be owning those tasks as well”.

Well that stakeholders entire department won an achievement award for performance today. I wasn’t mentioned there either.

My new boss came back to me yesterday and said “it’s locked in but I’m confident we can do something about it this year”.

So even though our COO, and SVP of enterprise marketing picked ME for this managerial role, and another SVP who is a major stakeholder freaked out when my promotion was announced, I have to prove myself to my new skip level.

Quitting Facebook, hitting the gym, sprucing up my portfolio, resume, LinkedIn and looking for a new Graphic Design Lead job. It was great while it lasted.

Absurd. Salaries are never “locked in” - they just think you’ll stick around now matter what.

So to me, as a hiring manager, I would want to hear your explanation alongside what you prepared, like you just did here. This would confirm for me that you know WTF you're doing and talking about. I mean, unless they specified, "use polyfills and avoid vars," etc., in the instructions and you just ignored that part, then their criterion is flawed.

That binary pass/fail b.s. isn't doing them any favors, but it IS doing YOU a favor, in that you know exactly what kind of ship they're running there, and you've been spared the frustration of enduring that kind of mentality if you ended up working there.

If the alarm wasn't tripped & there wasn't a major firefight, it's not like HEAT.

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Why the fuck are you people watching this show

And he keeps getting more extensions when the rest of us would have our assets seized by now.

I think they misspelled that. They forgot the r

He's just made a calculation and is shifting to account for likely outcomes.