Office story

I never imagine that I'll be in a situation like this...

It is about what happening in my office now...

All of you who are not self-employed must know the end-of-the-year performance appraisal that I believe is a worldwide practice by small or large organisation simply for the obvious reason: to appraise the employee as to whether they are doing their job as instructed (or rather agreed) or not.

Like my organisation, at the end of the appraisal you'll be given a performance rating; 1, 2, 3 or 4 (the worst!). And for rating 1 and 2, there will be the anticipating climax: Merit Bonus!!! (read: a lot of $$$!!! Well, not really much actually... maybe 6-7 months pay only).

This is where the problem start. Only 30% (maximum) of the organisation population will get the sacred rating of 1 or 2. So what happen to the 70%? Most of them will be rated 3 and it is only 10% (maximum) will be rated 4.

For the obvious reason not everyone will be pleased to be rated 3, let alone 4 where most of the cases it is a valid rating, as far as their performance is concerned.

I've been working for more than 10 years now and most of the time I was rated 3 only. (syyyhhh..! this is supposed to be confidential :-)). Most of the time I will reflect back on whether I deserved it or not, and at the same time envy (in controllable manner of course) those we were rated 1 or 2. I think I am better than some of those getting the good rating. Anyway, I always keep the abundance mentality (does this applicable here?) and promised to work harder next year...

But what happen in my office now really make me feel sick. This one guy seems extremely unhappy with the rating he got and start to make enemy of everyone in the office. I do not expect a 30-something man to behave this way... very negative. I am not sure what is he trying to prove with such a bad conduct. He has changed from a happy-go-lucky person to become ... (sorry, I don't know the correct word). He refused to talk to his office-mate and most of the time spending his time with colleague from other Department. He even cannot see eye-to-eye to those who were tipped to be rated 1 or 2 in the Department.

Does this solved his problem? I don't know. But behaving childdishly like this won't solve any problem. Short or long term.

Why not behaving like adult? Matured adult?