Meaningless Evaluations

The cat is out of the bag and it would appear that investigations into the deputy director and a certain watch manager are imminent, if not already in progress for alleged improprieties involving at least one pco evaluation. And as any investigation is pending, it might be prudent for the suits to evaluate the evaluations too, and the entire promotional processes, the disciplinary actions, and the lateral movements among pcos that are dependent--in part--upon the evalations. After all, if the alleged accusations are true, one can never be sure that any other evaluations are not tainted or corrupted either.

Blogmaster has long had a myriad of issues with the evaluations. To the extent that they measure anything, its usually the wrong things. Aside from obvious issues like tardiness and attendance, the rest of the evaluation is subjective and dependent upon the evalutor (an spco). For example, how a pco feels about management is irrelevant to whether or not they actually do the job; uniform standards have been so lax for so many years that any evaluation of this is completely meaningless; and since there is not now--nor has there ever been--any minimum benchmark standards for job performance, efficiencies, or set goals for pcos to aspire to the rest of the measures are also meaningless. It is a waste of paper, a waste of time, and wholly dependent upon the whims of the particular spco doing the evaluation. Adding insult to injury is the fact that pcos are routinely made to sign these evaluations but are not entitled to photocopies or duplicates of the final product with signature. WTF?

This last point cannot be emphasized enough and one can draw the obvious conclusion that the reason one is not given a copy of one's own signed evaluation is so that management can later alter any evalution at any time in order to better reflect the goals of the suits. And that raises the next point: promotions.

The promotional processes are now--not for the first time, but with perhaps the most direct evidence brought to light thus far--all in question, again. The last spco promotions, in june 2005, may all be seen to be suspect, as can the most recent promotion to watch manager, and the 4 watch manager promotions before that. And it is unfortunate because some of those promotees really deserved their advances. But for everyone else it becomes much much easier now to see how the back room shenanigans affect everyone else because there are a few spcos who really were questionable promotions given the overall pool of applicants.

Transparancy. It is so missing from this city and from the oemc. It is no wonder that no one has any confidence in the suits.