Employee evaluations are this week. My employer has a website with an electronic version of my evaluation. Basically, I did real well but there are areas that are rated in which my supervisor really has no way of evaluating me with a higher score than the "met expectations or requirements" rating. All the individual scores are a 1-5 rating with 5 being the best.
When going over my review with my supervisor, I pointed out that those areas could't accurately be judged because we seldom see each other and can't be measured on a spreadsheet. Since this was likely true for all the 1700+ techs in the company to some degree I didn't push it.
In the areas that really matter though I got all 4's. I don't think anybody ever gets 5's on anything. That indicates no room for improvement right?
My supervisor told me that of all the tech's in our district which extends from Seattle to Monterey...I got the most 4's of anybody AND that I qualified for a raise. The raise will be retroactive to the last pay period that was just turned in so I'll see the results in 2 weeks.
We recently had a Town Hall teleconference where they stated the average raise would be 3%...meaning that the highest raise would be about 6% which they didn't say. I'm supposed to have a conference call today with my supervisor and HR to acknologe and accept my evaluation.
For the company, giving raises is a big thing. The decline of warranty policy purchaces for $299 computers has taken a huge toll on the repair industry. Less money in the pot so to speak so our company has reduced what they pay techs at least 3 times over the last 5 years. and the result is no raises.
So the vote is still out on just how much they value what I do....but should find out either later today or when the check arrives.