My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company 11

[AW786]

Hi,

Can any one discuss and guide me,about my question.
Thanks

 

[TheTick]

What kind of achievements? Perfect attendance doesn't count.

 

[MadMango]

Is it you or our contributions to the company that are a concern? How are your achievements going above and beyond your job description? How are you bringing this up to your supervisor?

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

The people here are very helpful. I'm sure if you post an actual question, you will receive an actual answer; especially if you give more details.

The title is not a question, it's a statement.

However, the situation where a company does not recognise an employees achievements is quite normal.

Are your achievements directly work related or extra-curricular?

Are your achievements over and above the scope of what you are paid to do?

 

[SomptingGuy]

"extra-curricular"?? You could get sued for bragging about those kind of achievements.


- Steve

 

[AW786]

Let me Clear about my achievements.
My manager send a mail for safety essaywriting and he promise to give award on top paper.
I wrote a paper on ERT(Emergency Response Team) and my paper get much apperication inside refinery.
but I have not got any award, later on I come to know management was not happy because in my paper company weaknesses was outlined.
More over, I have done some out standing jobs which my supervisor can't do.
I have many things to say but this is enough for more discussion.
thanks

 

[ash9144]

If your paper was written in English then judging from your posts, I would not have given it any awards either.

Also when outlining "weaknesses" you need to be careful and helpful. Don't just throw out issues that need attention. You aren't the only one that knows the issues. Give corrective actions and things you can do to resolve the situation. Then do them and make improvements. That is exceeding your job expectation to a degree.

 

[ctopher]

I never do a job expecting immediate awards.
Do a great job on every project and your award will be personal gratification, a stable career, and respect from others.
If you 'need' an award, there are free download templates from Microsoft, print it out and display proudly on your wall.

Chris
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[SomptingGuy]

I have an award on my wall. It's apparently from our CEO. It says:


Dear (blank)

Thank you for doing whatever it was that you did, yada yada yada.

The CEO (bitmap of signature)



It made me feel so proud. The cheque cleared though.

- Steve

 

[TheTick]

Sounds like you were not the top paper. Did they recognize a top paper yet?

 

[TenPenny]

Just a couple of questions:

Is your job function to write essays on safety? If not, then I wouldn't waste any time worrying about it.

If your essay did, indeed, point out some areas that made your company look bad, then someone in management may have not wanted to celebrate this fact.

If you want to be recognized for your achievements at work, then I suggest you find out what things would maximize your boss, his boss, and his boss' boss' bonus and take home pay. Do everything you can to make the most money for your bosses, and they'll be more aware of your achievements.

 

[SKIAK]

Sounds to me you answered your own question, you ticked off the company by writing about some of their weaknesses. Was this a published essay?

The last award I received was for donating a total of 5 gallons of blood, and that was just a piece of paper, unless of course you consider the piece of paper I get every two weeks as I skip to the bank. Otherwise I agree with ctopher.

 

[whisperingpines]

Sometimes it is easy to forget you are being paid a salary to provide a service.
Sounds like you are in a refinery. Several of those type companies wait till they have a good sized burp (explosion) before they go over ways to improve saftey.

Awards sometime give the appearance of you being a brown-noser.
Up to now coworkers cannot make this assumption.

Good Luck.

 

[KENAT]

It's the way it is, and always will be, at most employers.

While you don't explicitly define what you consider appreciation there are numerous possibilities, an informal verbal 'well done', a written 'well done', a little trinket, a formal award, a bonus, a pay increase...

You don't say which you were expecting.

If I'd written, and apparantly circulated a report pointing out major failings of my employer I'd have probably been rewarded with a pink slip (laid off).

I routinely for all but the first few months of my career have done things my manager couldn't do, didn't mean I expected a plaque to put on the wall every time I cracked open the CAD system or typed at more than 25 words per minute.

At the end of the day, if you don't feel you get the recognition you deserve, and have made reasonable efforts to 'blow your own trumpet' without taking it too far then you have the option of finding alternative employment.

KENAT,

Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies:

http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

 

[ScottyUK]

Isn't getting paid each month part of the 'reward' for doing your job?


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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!

 

[jmw]

Ah! Politics.
Managers need to look good to their own managers.

When asking for an "essay" (report?) he expects a report that will make him look good. Especially a report with an award attached because this sounds like oe of those management wheezes designed to make your manager look like he is a fast track material and here you are pointing out "weaknesses".

If you discover failings then talk to him before committing it to writing .... these things assume huge importance in legal cases..... of course, if there is a serious safety issue then it should be brought to managements attention in the proper manner, give your boss a way to present it or resolve the issue in a manner that doesn't make him look like a goof.

More over, I have done some out standing jobs which my supervisor can't do.

I hope you didn't point this out to your supervisor?

Managers are human too (a sub species, maybe, but human none the less) and they don't ever like their subordinates to be, or appear to be, better than they are. They feel threatened and will pursuade themselves that the subordinate is looking for an excuse to embarrass them and take their job..... your report may well be just that....way to go!

The one thing worse than to speak inadvisedly is to write inadvisedly. One can always tamper with peoples recollections of what was actually said or the tone in which they were spoken but the written record?

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

-- Omar Khayyam ... how wise that man was.

The lesson best learned as early in your career as possible is that the workplace is a complex environment which is not ruled by logic but by human weakness and politics. Diplomacy is your best survival tool, that and an up to date CV.



JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[zdas04]

Some really good advice up there. I'd like to add that circulating a report to people not involved in its preparation before the report has been approved by management is a very bad idea. If you take it to your manager first, then he has the opportunity to say "this section doesn't really reflect conditions, go take a look at ... and see if you want to re-write this part". Doing that makes you look like you are contributing to the solution instead of trying to find fault.

I've seen a bunch of personal injury cases hinge on such reports as proving company fore-knowledge of the root cause of the injury--that adds zeros to the right-hand end of the settlement and can push the review from "negligence" to "gross negligence" which can add a significant multiplier to the settlement.

Everything you've written above sounds like you've mistaken "objective analysis" for "exposing faults and assessing blame". The second time you do the latter, your boss will start looking for someplace to park you that is out of his hair (preferably on the street in a bad neighborhood).

David

 

[monkeydog]

I recently receive a letter from my CEO thanking me for my 25 years of commitment to excellence.

I call it my survivor award.

 

[cranky108]

Since many of us work in industries that can be dangerous, and there can always be improvments. We need to look at the fact that some conditions can't be fixed cheeply, or in the way everybody likes.

We do sometime have to ask people to be in conditions that could be deadly. We don't need the constant reminder of that fact. It is destracting and can make the condition worse.

Like airline pilots who may only face one major event in there working life. There knoledge and training is there saving grace.
It's better to not point out the problems to managment, but to offer a training solution.

 

[ExRanger]

I must be mistaken, but it seems that in a few of the posts here people are advocating a sort of cover-up of dangerous products and/or conditions. If you believe there is a danger to human safety, you should just keep quiet about it? Really? Management doesn't even want to know?

I'd say any company that operates in that kind of head in the sand way *is* guilty of gross negligence and should be fined if not shut down.

Maybe people are instead saying that they believe the management is always fully aware of all risks and doesn't need any more information. That might be the case, but maybe that doesn't matter. In my experience, managers often have an incentive to push for shorter schedules and less money spent without paying much regard to risk. The system depends on other people, either the customers, a labor union, the government, or the engineer to push back. If the push back never happens, maybe the company ends up putting out dangerous junk as a product.