Moving away from "Give me work, I will do it..."?
Dear Friends, Greetings! Hearty welcome to my new blog. This is the first post written on this blog! Few days back, at my workplace, during tea break I got into an informal conversation with my colleague Ritesh (name changed). During the conversation Ritesh started discussing about his performance review meeting, He was not happy with his appraisal because his manager had felt the former had not contributed anything additional to the assigned work. As per Ritesh's argument, he had completed all the assigned tasks well ahead of time and was waiting for the work to be assigned from his manager. He quoted "Without someone giving me work how I could I do? Give me work, I will do it better than anyone. Last year for the same work I had got better performance rating". I believe some of you might have come across such conversations or situations. What do you think? Is Ritesh's concern valid? Or is Ritesh's manager demanding something unreasonable? In normal circ...