Reply #100: Went through that ranking nonsense in the Oil Biz...

[AnneD]

I had a performance evaluation shortly before-which was the tip off. They hired me for one thing then shifted me in another job description. I had been trying to get into certain classes to train myself for the job I was given, but I couldn't get approval. At the evaluation-the boss tried to shame me and my work and he said, and I quote 'How can you sleep at night know you you haven't done a good days work at this job". I looked at him with steel in my eyes and replied."I sleep very well knowing that I did the best job for you with the tools you have given me. You how ever should be the one with the sleeping problems, knowing you've been dishonest in your assessments and unfair in your treatment of a good worker. It's your loss not mine." (I actually saw my supervisor blush and the boss hemhaw)

When they hired a foreign national with a Master's for our type of job (and paid her a tad more than they paid us)-I knew it was a matter of time. I noticed that I was the cutoff and the PYT before me did some serious suck up (I was recommended over her by my old boss), but that is another story. I went through some very hard times afterward-which has really given me a leg up in understanding the current economic picture.

Forced ranking are a dirty and humiliating way to lay folks off. It is with great satisfaction that I let you know there is such a shortage of top quality workers in the Oil Biz-I left and never came back-as has many other it seems. Now they are crying for good help but all the money in the world would not get me back into that arena.