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CowgirlK39
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Ask for a review?
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I have been at my job almost seven months and have not received a review yet because we are so very busy. I am finally getting the hang of things and have had some coworkers speak highly of me, and some act like complete jerks. I asked one today if we get annual reviews and he said no. Should I ask my boss for a review so I know how I am doing? I am trying to base my life and future on this job and want to make sure I am doing a good job. I am just worried that it might open a can of worms and maybe they will find things they don't like and fire me. I try to stay quiet and under the radar but I also try to do a good job.
Re: Ask for a review?
This job sounds volatile. You want to stay under the radar, but you are interested in keeping this as a career job. I don't know the particulars, but that sounds contradictory to me. Do you honestly think asking a manager to give you a review will result in being fired? Most managers, upon hearing that you want to know what you're excelling at and improve where you can should be thrilled to talk to their employees. Realistically, many people don't have a black-and-white idea of what their job duties are the metrics they're measured by. So, if your managers don't have a clear sense of what you SHOULD be doing, they may base the review on more squishy things (personality, what they interpret as efficiency and performance). That may not be the most useful, but it's better than nothing. I say, ask for a review.
Also, most people ask for reviews when they want a raise. If that's not the case, say so when you ask. That will make your desire to improve at your job more evident and less like you're gaming them for more money.
I would ask, but phrase it a bit different. Asking for feedback shows that you care about your performance and that you desire to improve if/when needed, whereas asking for an annual review when they don't do them may be mistaken for questioning the way they do business.
"Now that I've been here a little while, I'd love to sit down and discuss how things are going. I'd like to make sure I'm meeting your expectations and find out if there's any areas I need to focus on improving."
Hopefully they would give you the time, but if not at least you put that impression out there.
If they haven't brought any issues to your attention, and aren't treating you differently than your peers, then you probably don't need to worry that you'd suddenly find out you suck at your job and they don't like you.
BFP 11.8.12 * EDD 7.17.13 * MC 12.20.12
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over!