Mrs. Evans

The darkside

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Lahh kiri kanan motor nak potong dlm traffic jam ni.. Pastu masing2 nak hon2 like give the cars a fucking break lah.. Siapa yg road tax mahal skrg ni? Yg kau terlebih entitled tu knape?

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

@solmerv I still don't like seho.. Don't fight me

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Urge lah camne pon, mati hidup balik tak dapat

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

"Why does our top performer get the worst reviews?" the boss asked.

I was reviewing their annual performance data.

"Show me," I said.

She pulled up the ratings.
Diana: 2.8 out of 5.
Below average on "collaboration."
Low marks for "team player."

"What's her actual performance?" I asked.

"Exceeded every target.
Landed our biggest client.
Trained three new hires."

"So why the low scores?"

"Her peer reviews are dragging her down."

I scanned the comments.
"Too direct."
"Challenges ideas too much."
"Not supportive enough."

"Let me talk to Diana," I said.

"I used to give honest feedback," Diana told me.
"Said our pricing model was broken.
Got dinged for 'negativity.'"

"What happened with the pricing?"

"They finally fixed it six months later.
After we lost two major accounts."

"What else?"

"I questioned why we needed
eleven approvals for a simple contract change.
Manager said I wasn't being collaborative."

"Are you still giving feedback?"

"No. I learned my lesson.
Now I smile. Nod. Say everything's great.
My reviews are improving."

"But nothing's actually improving?"

"We're making the same mistakes.
Just with better vibes." She chuckled.

I went back to the boss.

"Your review system doesn't measure performance," I said.
"It measures compliance."

"That's not true."

"When was the last time someone
got promoted for challenging bad ideas?"

Silence.

"When did someone get rewarded for preventing a mistake?"

More silence.

"You've trained your best people to stay quiet.
And your mediocre people to stay nice."

A few months later, they redesigned the system.

Added a category: "Constructive Challenge."
Points for identifying problems early.
Rewards for preventing costly mistakes.

Diana got promoted.

"What changed?" I asked the boss.

"We stopped confusing agreement with alignment.
Stopped mistaking silence for harmony."

"And?"

"Turns out our 'difficult' people
were our most valuable.
They actually cared enough to speak up."

Here's the truth about performance reviews:

Most companies don't reward performance.
They reward performance theater.

The person who says the meeting was great
beats the person who says it wasted an hour.

The person who agrees with bad ideas
beats the person who prevents disasters.

You think you're measuring contribution.
You're measuring conformity.

And your best people?
They've already figured out the game.

They're just deciding whether to play it
or find somewhere that values truth over comfort.

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

What a bitch

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

You know it's toxic when you have to consider resigning just to travel...

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

istg stinky people should not be allowed in public area.. They should have a law in place for that.. Blergh

[Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸⚡️ @7MohammedKhaled]

Can we get 18000 people to say "I STAND with Palestine 🇵🇸"

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Fuck sape yg bau masyamm sgt nihhhhh

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This must be on the front page of every newspaper.
It must be on every TV screen.

This is one of the Palestinian bodies held hostage by Israel, returned through the International Committee of the Red Cross.

This is one of the people CNN referred to, only as “deceased.”

He was blindfolded, handcuffed, and hanged.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

⚠️Sensitive Content ⚠️

🚨HEARTBREAKING: An Israeli airstrike targeted a tent sheltering a displaced family around midnight in Al-Sawarha, south of Nuseirat, Gaza.

The strike killed the entire family, including children, while they were asleep.

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

My dramatic broke ass be like: Browsing for houses bc my family can't clean to save their lives.. budak2 lagi pandai 🙄

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

@mhmmdhsm So, nak pakai khemah material apa tu ya?

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Twas 10pm... not many people in the LRT anymore.. but how is it 90% of the seats are taken by men? Chivalry is dead, yallss.. tepuk tangan

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

sape yg bau cam roti dlm lrt ni?

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Seller2 ni sumpah tak payah pakai Flash Express.. tak pernah sampai parcel aku... Management dia bukan main sume documents lah nak terpaling laju.. mmg bankrupt kalau tak expedite DCR kau kan?? Tpi bab delivery mcm hauk..

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

asal bau cam telur lrt ni?

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

Punya lah panjang interview tu, dia focus one liner tu je.. Cuba dengar betul2 apa dia cakap. Attention span teruk sangat tu.

[Mrs. Evans @aimyhoney]

I now realise that i can't expect anything from anyone.