So I was excited to get my first review right? I thought , this should be good, I have been doing so well! WHat do you think happened??? well the only negative thing on my reivew was about me doing something that I DID NOT EVEN DO!!!!! Instead of asking me about it I get to see it on my permanent review? WTF?!
I came home and wrote the following response which I am going to turn in tomorrow and if I must I will go to the top to get this resolved.
I have been thinking about the review and about our discussion on the 2/2/09 incident. I am not comfortable with you leaving it on MY reivew that I made the error in routing that day. I would absolutley accept responsibility if I had anything to do with it but I did not. Just because I stepped in at the end of the per2 routing to help a team member out when he went to the class does not make me responsible for something that he did or did not do an hour before I even stepped in.
It is difficult to explain the routing process to someone who has not learned it themself. If someone who has experience in routing could sit down and look at the facts they would see that it was no fault of my own and instead the fault or mistake of Someone else.
I am the last person to point fingers, I dislike placing blame. In this case however, I came in after the problem or mistake occured and am being put to blame with the people or person who actually made the error.
I do not think it is fair of a supervisor to ask me to accept a performance review in my permanent file that has incorrect information on it, especially if I want to move up in the company, which I do. I in no way want this incident associated with me when I apply for a supervisor position and I believe that these reviews are looked at for such occasions as are they reviewed in times of raises.
The day in question I was not routing. He had to leave for a respect class at approx 10:30am. I asked him 3 times if everything was completed up to the per2 work. He said yes, then I specifically and jokingly said to him, are you sure (the 3rd time) because I do not want to be balmed for something you messed up. He laughed and said everything was done.
The checklist was not filled in under the produce billing area but when I opened up the per2 file in Orders it showed me that the produce had infact been downloaded and was separated, he just did not fill in the checklist.
When he came back from class I gave him back the checklist and paperwork and I initialed the areas I worked on. I can not be held responsible for him not filling in the checklist when i gave it back to him.
I also do not think it is fair to assume that I would fill it in for him with my own initials since I did not do that part of the work. How was I to know he did not fill in the checklist after I gave it to him? I had left for the day.
As far as I knew when I left the work was done and we had no issues. I come in the next morning and find out what happened. I explained in detail to one of the supervisors since she was the first supervisor to talk to me and I assumed she passed along the information but I assumed wrong by the look of my review.
Ofcourse if I noticed there was no produce work I would have fixed the problem, but there was produce work and proof of that is the per2 file. What happened was he separated the per2 produce from the rest and either deleted the rest of the produce or put it in an incorrect file. I never looked for the other file since I had nothing to do with the other file nor did I need to since I had already seen the produce work in the file I was working on.
This, once again would have been done atleast an hour before I took over. I was there until 2pm and he was there until 3pm…the next router comes in at noon and begins routing at 1pm. She had plenty of time to look into the orders area and notice there was a problem so that we could have fixed it but that did not happen.
Once again I am not trying to place blame but I am trying to make it understood that I had nothing to do with this mistake in routing and I do not believe it is fair for it to be on my review.
I think we need to have all concerned parties in the same room to discuss this if someone is not in agreement with me.
I appreciate your time and concern in this matter.
So that is my letter, I stated the facts. I even showed the supervior on paper how it couldnt have happened and he still said he wasnt removing it from my review. Is that fair? sure life isnt fair, but this is just plain wrong and I demand resolution. I plan to work for this company for a long time and I plan to move up…I do not want as much as a speckle in my permanent file when that times comes. I work very hard to make sure I do the right thing and I’ll be damned if someone else will come in and mess up the work I have done to get this far and me just sit by and take it.
sheila1977
