My workplace, the senior management, is going all in on Copilot. So much so that at the end of last year to told us to use Copilot for year end reviews! Even provided a prompt to use, told us to link it to Outlook (not sure why, since our email retention isn’t very long)… but whatever.
I tried it, out of curiosity because I had no faith. It started printing out stats for things that never happened. It provided a 35% increase here, a 20% decress there, blah blah blah. It didn’t actually highlight anything I do or did. And I’m banking that a human will partially read my review, not just use AI.
If someone read it, I’m good. If AI reads it, I do wonder if I screwed myself. Since senior mgmt is just offloading to AI…
Ah, the fun of performance reviews. No one actually cares what is written there, the result is decided ignoring the actual content.
So everyone pretends that what you write in there is important and pretends that the written response is important, but nothing you or they will write has any chance of changing promotions and raises. Those may come, but when they come, it’s never because someone read your write up and thought ‘OMG, give that person a raise and promotion’.
So it’s all an act so I can see why management wants to take any opportunity to shuffle people off to even more token efforts.
Every year I try to convince my coworker that his hours and hours of scrutinizing his records and crafting just the perfect performance review that captures the essence of his entire year is wasted, compared to me logging into the tool and spending 10 minutes writing some vague stuff off the top of my head. I don’t lie or anything, just have a relatively brief and vague review, because I know they already know how much they cared about what I did and I’m not talking them into more.
My workplace, the senior management, is going all in on Copilot. So much so that at the end of last year to told us to use Copilot for year end reviews! Even provided a prompt to use, told us to link it to Outlook (not sure why, since our email retention isn’t very long)… but whatever.
I tried it, out of curiosity because I had no faith. It started printing out stats for things that never happened. It provided a 35% increase here, a 20% decress there, blah blah blah. It didn’t actually highlight anything I do or did. And I’m banking that a human will partially read my review, not just use AI.
If someone read it, I’m good. If AI reads it, I do wonder if I screwed myself. Since senior mgmt is just offloading to AI…
Ah, the fun of performance reviews. No one actually cares what is written there, the result is decided ignoring the actual content.
So everyone pretends that what you write in there is important and pretends that the written response is important, but nothing you or they will write has any chance of changing promotions and raises. Those may come, but when they come, it’s never because someone read your write up and thought ‘OMG, give that person a raise and promotion’.
So it’s all an act so I can see why management wants to take any opportunity to shuffle people off to even more token efforts.
Every year I try to convince my coworker that his hours and hours of scrutinizing his records and crafting just the perfect performance review that captures the essence of his entire year is wasted, compared to me logging into the tool and spending 10 minutes writing some vague stuff off the top of my head. I don’t lie or anything, just have a relatively brief and vague review, because I know they already know how much they cared about what I did and I’m not talking them into more.