I'm about to have my annual review.
I f'ing LOATHE annual reviews. I'd rather eat glass.
I'd like to see annual reviews done away with entirely, & feedback be continuous throughout the year.
Where I work, your annual cost of living increase is tied to how well you do on your annual review. That's some rank-ass bullshit right there.
I feel like I've had a particularly bad year, especially the last couple of months. Some of that is my perfectionism talking, & some of it is that no, I actually have been sucking the past couple of months: forgetting things, unable to focus, making errors & not dealing with shit very well.
I'm really not looking forward to learning about all the ways I've screwed up in the past year. That's what these things are to me, even when the feedback is good. Because there's always supposed to be room for improvement, so the business culture encourages managers to look for fuckups.
Yeah, I don't do well emotionally w/reviews.
A better model for those of us with mental health conditions might be... I dunno, anything but this. For me, maybe a 1x/month check-in or something. I do have regular meetings w/my manager & I'm like, why do I have to do this annual review crap? Because HR makes us? F.