scrabbler1
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At the end of the review was told that my performance was "Achieved Expectations" which on a scale of 1-5 is a 3. Here's the rub...last year I also was rated a 3 and I coasted all year. This year I was rated a 3 and busted my *ss...lesson learned, do what it takes to get by and count down those days to retirement!
As a corollary to this, I recall in my early working years (late 1980s through mid-1990s) that there was a greater spread in raises between highly rated employees versus average rated employees. So if you busted your *ss you got a 7% raise versus a 4% raise, pretty good incentive. [In the late 1980s, the spread was often even larger.]
But starting in the late 1990s through the 2000s, this range shrunk to 3% for the average rated employees and maybe 4% for the highly rated ones. So why should I bust my *ss to get a measly extra 1%?
Switching to working part-time starting in 2001 greatly simplified this issue. I was already forgoing about 40% of my pay so did I really care if my raise was 3% instead of 4%? No friggin way! This was a big first step towards freeing myself from the pressures of needing the (extra) money from working.