My job is so demanding I'm totally getting burnt out and worse it that now my reviews are saying that i'm not hard working enough I feel like i'm in Asia even though i'm not, it's normal for people to work 10 hours here, and we're all salary and because i dont do it everyday they look at me as not being dedicated or a team player. Wahhhhh, this job is going to help me get a better working visa, and has awesome pay and benefits, but if it wasn't for the working visa issue I would start considering switching.
yea a lot of my friends that work at the company are saying something similar to just bit my lips and deal cause that's the world we live in
yeah,i think that you should bite the lips but you should take some time and analyse why your reviews are so
Yea I"m trying too such that leaving a half hour after my 8 hours compared to everyone else who is working an extra 2 hours outside of their 8 hours. People work from home by remoting into their computers a lot in the middle of the night and weekends. Someone on my management chain told me that we aren't judged by the amount of hours we work, but by out output. And for those people who work 10 hours a day, they put out more output, which i will be compared against when it comes to reviews. It's not that I dont like my job, in fact I think this is a good job considering my skill set and where it is in the industry, it's just that the standards for accomplishments are so obsurdly high that doing the right amount to complete against your coworkers during review time means sacrificing a lot of your personal life/time and in my case mental stability. And if you dont get ahead, that actually takes strikes against you.
ok .. what are you doing and why you need a working visa? are you one of those from china, india, russia, mexico, egypt, or iraq .. lol anyway, you don't have to agree with the review and should talk it out with your boss if you're working your hardest yet s/he doesn't seem it that way. sometimes, it's just the communication or your works style is not up to his standard or whatever .. you gotta ask questions and seek out solution in order to improve yourself. you can be working 14-16 a day yet still get the same review if things aren't going the way your boss wanted it. sometimes, you're out working somewhere and your boss can't find so it's mark that s/he remembers at that moment for a review later .. you know where i am going with this ... a solutions for that is an instant msn, email, or call that you're working at home or something. if you don't have enough work, ask for more or whatever .. gotta be proactive but first seek out the problems.
i say deal with it. ride it through this tough economy; especially if you are on working visa. i hope you are working towards a more permanent status? as for the review, they (as in management) have to say something bad; they can't give you perfect points because they need to protect themselves - contingency plan to fire you etc. if you are receiving perfect points, they will have a harder time trying to fire you. but if you are getting a not so good reviews, down the road; if they need to fire you, they can say, we have documented his/her issues and yet nothing changed. so we have to let him/her go. protect them from lawsuit.