Halloween is a good day to share scary stories. Here are five tales of HR
horror from Halogen Software, a performance management company. Halogen chose
today to release a survey on employee-appraisal nightmares. Pray these creatures
don’t haunt your office:
• The mother of a 20-something worker who told HR that her son’s review
score should be raised so that he could get a better raise. “She offered to come
in and show me reference letters from his teachers and former employers to
reinforce her story,” the respondent wrote.
• The boss who said his all-female work group reminded him of a bunch of
mares scratching and biting each other. The respondent said the boss’s daughter
rode horses, “so I guess he thought that was a good analogy.”
• The reviewer who wrote of an employee: “Bob did pretty good for an old
guy.”
• The manager who copied his 12 employees’ self-appraisals ... and
submitted them as his own.
• The nurse who was being evaluated on how well she delivered
medications and told her supervisor she followed what the voices in her head
told her to do.
Can you top those? If so, send a note to editors@workforce.com.
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