YoungHeart1980!

I hope everyone is doing okay. I started working at 8:20am this morning. Had a little late start to my work day. I took my time and took a deep breath and prayer before I got my day started. I feel I’m in a nightmare, this really happens at work and to me. I question what I have done for people to be so unfair. If they were in my shoes how would they react? As I sat in my work chair within 10 minutes my Teams messenger goes off. My boss wants to discuss my evaluation. Okay, let’s get to it. I’m ready.

My boss begins to tell me my rating is the best he could do. I told him I did a lot more that the role I hold. He responds with the administrator also agreed with him. My boss also contradicted himself with the following statements. “He relies on me for information and relaying updates to him on my projects.” “The administrator wanted my boss to give me more work.” “I was supposed to take on invoicing to other hospitals for the work we do on their behalf.” I asked, “How much more am I supposed to be taking on if I just told you I’m overwhelmed?” The administrator also asked my boss why I wasn’t helping out with financial functions for the research team across the hall from me? Which story is it? This is insane as I was advised that I would solely be working on two projects that include sub-projects with combined budgets of $33.8M and supporting up to 200 staff at one point or another.

I expressed going above and beyond which I had to document because I countered that my performance evaluation should at least have a minimum rating of 4.0/5. In order to do so I had write up a justification and a list of additional tasks that I considered “above and beyond.” Okay, well why does the administrator have a say in my evaluation? He doesn’t see or know my work, you do and are my direct supervisor. Now I knew my boss had nothing else to say and I knew who was running the show. If I didn’t know what was happening I knew now. I was up against a battle that I might not win, but I wasn’t going to let this go. Not this time. So, I did. I provided the justification and my boss would get back to me with a response of increasing the rating to 4.0 of 5 on the performance scale.

It’s 3pm and I received a response, no. No increase in the rating of my performance evaluation after a discussion with the department administrator. My final rating is 3.6/5. Only increased by .2 points and my boss was in agreement with the administrator. And if I wanted to increase even further I was to talk to the administrator myself. I asked why the medical doctors didn’t have input in my evaluation they know my work a lot more than my boss and administrator? I work for the MD’s. The question ignored and redirected. I declined to meet with the administrator and mentioned I would write a rebuttal in my evaluation. My boss insisted that I talk to the administrator first before I wrote a rebuttal. Stunned and upset at how things work around here. My boss mentioned he would give me time to hash things out. Wait! This is due 10/31/25, what time? I’m out of time already.

I knew why the delay in sending the evaluation to me now. My boss was dreading this moment. They knew all the work I have completed, but since they don’t get a higher rating I don’t have the right to a higher rating than they. I wasn’t backing down. All the Best!