MAGA Doesn't Seem to Grasp What an Appropriate Performance Review Is
One key element is the reviewer is usually familiar with the performance
Imagine you’re in the office working hard at your desk on your daily tasks. Someone you don’t recognize walks over, with an inquisitive look on his face.
“Hello”, he says. “I’d like you to make a list of five things you did today.”
What would your reaction be? Would you automatically assume you had to comply with his demand? Or would you be offended that some stranger thought he had the power to compel you to do anything, much less justify your own productivity?
Now imagine that you saw that same person on the national news, during footage of a boisterous conference, wearing sunglasses indoors and a shit-kicking grin while wielding a chainsaw on stage.
Would you be more or less likely to cooperate with this person’s demands?
Most normal people would think “What the hell is this crazy person doing invading my workspace? I have stuff to do, why should I stop what I’m doing at any point during the workday to take the 2-5 minutes out to type an email to an insane yard-tool-waving maniac who is in no way associated with my job?”
MAGA thinks that you should not bitch, and just comply, dammit. It’s so easy to simply type up five things you got done today. Obviously, if you can’t do that simple task— which any drooling simpleton could do—you probably don’t deserve the job you have. So get with the program, loser, and give the man what he wants!
The problem with this approach is that it ignores one key element of performance reviews: they are done by someone that’s familiar with said job performance.
This person would be your boss and/or manager of some kind. Someone with a stake in your work. Not a random person off the street.
Even if you didn’t know this person, such as in a situation where an acquisition of your company occurred and the whole management team was overhauled, you would understand the power dynamic at play. The new bosses would there because the new owner now have control over the company. And when someone owns a private company, they can do whatever the hell they want with that company.
Why would you just comply with an order for someone whose authority is not recognized and who has no inside knowledge of the tasks you actually do? It makes no sense.
So when MAGA acts like anyone that’s put off by this demand from a complete stranger with no known association to their job is a lazy ne’er-do-well, it’s pretty rich.
The origin of the anger felt by these affected federal workers, and regular Americans with a conscience, lies in the immense hubris of the offender. I think most American employees are fine justifying their positions with five bullet points of completed tasks in a week. They just prefer to do it for someone that actually has real authority over them.
They don’t want to succumb to the whims of a madman in sunglasses with a chainsaw.
They don’t want to be part of the DOGE show.
So MAGA bragging that they would just complete the task only proves that they are part of a cult, not part of the prideful American workforce.
That’s why they don’t get the anger, the repulsion at such a request.
Which doesn’t bode well for when they are requested to something really inappropriate
The request had a total harassment vibe. When he called it a pulse check, I wondered if that was his way of backing down and gaslighting. Or maybe that was his intention, which makes the request stupid at best and duper lazy. I read that a map of this network, who does what and their managers, is what the Chinese & Russians want. But is that the why? Also heard that his employees from his other companies, are like, yeah, this is what he does. I feel like the Tate brothers being back in is just another symbol of shit bosses abusing people, harassment, abuse & rape are now back in the tool box.