What do I do in this situation?[Details Inside]

[ryuk_shinigamiParticipant 95]

So, I completed about a year and a half in my first company.
I have a manual testing job.Despite realizing the fact later that it was nothing what it was told to be, during my training, I worked hard and gave it my best shot for the first year in this.
The appraisals came yesterday….and what did I get?

The lowest rating (and the salary hike that comes along with it) that anyone can get!!

I had started to learn coding way before this appraisal started(July last year), but there is still a long way to go before I get to the real stuff in it,ie data structures and algorithms.

I feel that my boss has made a mockery of my efforts and is trying to bait me into working more hours….but Im like “Why should I work more hours, if I did not get the deserved salary hike?”

I am in a double mind situation..If I work more hours,I will get trapped and eventually will have lesser and lesser time to study coding.If I work less(not completely avoid job, as such work on my own pace) and study coding, then I can learn coding well and leave this testing work at the earliest possible opportunity….but this will definitely not go too well with the boss(es).

Help me out here, brothers…what should I do?

Some people call it fate. I call it, "Chaos Theory" - Sam Fisher

[RoyDalParticipant]

I’m going with keep up your studies and, in the meantime, tune up your resume.

A corporate CEO once told Scott Adams (Dilbert’s creator) that he is always looking for his next job. That sounds like good advice to me.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[TaxGuyParticipant]

The bigger the company the less they care about “you”. Once you have a bad report, your boss will feel free to take your raise from you and give it to someone else the next time as well. The reality is that he probably gets a certain percentage raise for his department as a whole, and if he wants to give a little extra to someone then he has to take it from someone else. He’s telling you that other people in his department are more important than you.

The bitch is that he is probably giving to someone that makes more than you. So, in order to get an extra 1% to his friend, he has to take 2% from you. Once they have the money part figured out, then they write the evaluation needed to justify the money.

Just remember, it’s ALWAYS about the money. Money = love in a big company. If they don’t show you the money, they don’t love you. It won’t do you any good to work harder, so you should focus on yourself and your future.

BTW, the other way of doing it is to give everyone the same raise regardless of your job appraisal. I refer to this one as the communist state. Just give everyone the same and avoid the need to think. This type of company sucks if you are good at what you do, great if you half-ass everything.

Oh yeah, and then when you leave they will pay the next person 10% more than what you were making and they know nothing about the company so they are worth less than you. Just ignore that, every big company does it. Doesn’t make sense or make it right, but for some reason it’s just the way it works. That’s why you only get a big raise when you leave.

Order the good wine

[Biggvs_DickvsParticipant 3725]

Agreed. In tech you should pretty much always be looking for the next thing. And when you do it, bump your asking salary up by 10-20% and see if anyone bites. You can ratchet it down until someone does.

If you need experience on your resume, start contributing to open source projects. As a hiring manager, I can tell you that for me that is every bit as good as corporate experience, possibly far better, depending on the nature of the contribution you make.

Plus you don’t need to interview for the job. Just show up on the forums for your project of choice and ask how you can help.

MY $.02,

Rich

"Data, I would be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know." --Captain Picard,

[HitmanParticipant]

TaxGuy wrote:

Just remember, it’s ALWAYS about the money. Money = love in a big company. If they don’t show you the money, they don’t love you

funny how corporations are like women ..no $ no honey ..

[QuietlyquietlyParticipant 728]

Look for a new job. Start now. Update your CV, call friends, check papers, websites, physically go to agencies (hint: agencies are very feminist, so you have to charm them, do what they want, and show you’ll do what they are asking, but the rewards pay off).

In the meantime, do your job, get by, don’t put in extra hours, but DO check if you can take your evaluation to a higher manager to have it re-evaluated. Find out what “unfair dismissal” is, as you just might be being lined up for it.

I have a friend who this exact thing happened to. She organized events, year upon year, which had celebrities at each one, and as with all logistics, things go wrong occasionally. She had review after review that only cited the negatives, and not a single positive (she’d organized the whole f~~~ing thing, but not a single mention of it). I told her they were lining her up to be fired, and to be prepared.

Sure enough, 3rd review comes, all bad, they ask her to leave by the end of the week.

Luckily, she’d taken my advice, and consulted an HR lawyer in the intervening time. She went back in on Monday morning, to surprised looks, and said, “I’m considering my options”, which in corporate speak means “You’re up for unfair dismissal and you’re f~~~ed”. They knew it.

She got a new job within 3 weeks, at 50% EXTRA pay.

Protect yourself, dude. Keep a copy of your appraisal, mark down EVERYTHING that was good that hasn’t been listed, just in case. Keep notes about what you are asked to do on a daily basis, know the f~~~ out of your contract, do what your job is, and refuse everything that isn’t. No f~~~ing around here, protect yourself.

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