Anonymous
05/18/2026 11:51
Subject: I want to not fight with my boss
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know it’s annoying but it’s nice that he believes in you and wants to help advance you. I’d love to have someone like that in my corner.
He's a really nice guy. He's just enamored of some really stupid stuff. And his boss likes it even more than he does.
Okay, but that means it's the job. His job, to please his boss, includes making sure your performance review includes some corporate speak and SMART goals. So your boss wants to have a meeting to get your "work product" - meaning, your review - up to the standards being set by your boss and his boss.
It's nice that he framed it as helping you, but it's not really that. It's a requirement.
True if there were no one above the boss's boss, but if the job is accomplishing X, Y, and Z, and an entire department is happy with the way X, Y, and Z are getting done, then Synergyfest is only a requirement for promotion.
In the time you've spent responding to posts on this thread, you could have just written up some BS language for your review and been done.
I've managed people like you and it's always a relief when they finally retire, because nothing they could possibly produce is worth the hassle of massaging their feelings about what the job ought to be, but isn't.
