Reply #16: Yes. Performance evaluations are stupid.

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The American who created the Japanese business model said annual reviews were the single biggest mistake made by American businesses. It lets managers ignore their principal job, managing employees, 11 months out of the year. It creates one month of stress for everyone involved and wastes a lot of management's time that month. It is highly arbitrary and typically useless.

In over 60 years my current employer has only once had an employee fail the annual review. That simple fact exposes the process for its uselessness. Actually since the employee in question, me, was credited for about 90% of the IT department's productivity that year, that particular review method was immediately dropped (though I still didn't get my raise; rules, you know). But that was over a decade ago, and nobody has failed the new evaluations either.

Performance evaluations are a complete waste of time.