Types of People In Yearly One o Ones
Late “out-times”, early “in-times”, delayed and short meal times, lack of sleep, working on weekends, ignoring our personal life and other countless things we do for that one conversation to go great that is actually going to define our future “job title” and the figures that are going to get credited in our salary account at the end of every month for at least an year.
So when the judgment day arrives different people has different expressions on their faces, some are nervous , some are anticipated and some just doesn’t care and are still bragging at the broken vending machine. So, the sequence of meetings start and everyone gets called out one by one, now the duration of meeting actually depends on the type of person who walked in there.
I always feel like these one o ones are like cricket matches
where the employees are the batsman and the manager is the bowler and here’s
the interesting part , the format of the match totally depends on the batsman.
Personally I like T20 matches that are interesting and worth watching, here as
well T20 matches are the meetings that are short and crisp and normally the
players involved are either good hitters or flat pitchers. So, basically it
involves the “Agreed/hopeless” category aka the set of population who are
either too satisfied by the rating and the results or too hopeless by the
rating system of the organization either way they are not bothered.
Second category is the “One day Matches” and the players of
these kind of matches are the batsman with good average. So, it constitutes the
population who are neither confident nor hopeless they are like little
“fighting Ninjas” who fight at their own level but not sure if they’ll win the
war. So, they take considerable time in their one o ones trying to counter
every “BUT” the manager bowl to them but not sure will be able to convince him and
win the conversation. Most of the times the decisions of these matches are in
favor of ruling party only but the ninja is only happy to put a decent fight.
Final category is the “Test Matches” and it constitutes the
perfect defenders like “Dravid” and “Laxman”. These people are the ones who
have done their proper homework done for every “BUT” manager is going to ask.
They duck every bouncer, defend every Yorker and take their proper time playing
their innings. So, their one o ones mostly stretch for hours and might even
take few days and like test matches most of them end on “Draw” note and the
players are not quite happy about it.
Finally when postman delivers the “letters of fate” some people leave the gate with a
brightening smile on their face and thinking about the next expensive thing
they can afford now, some are either feeling like being cheated and planning to
avenge and some have the satisfaction on their face of being able to make the
necessary!
We all know we are working for that little increment but is it worth
it? Ask yourself, my take is you’ll definitely find something you are taking
away with be it technical skills, domain knowledge or the least will be the
professional experience that makes you stand tall in the industry!
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