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My company recently instituted a “goals” program that EVERYONE has to participate in. What do…?

Pertinent info: I work mainly with photoshop and custom content management systems to take screenshots from TV shows given to me and make them pretty enough for a streaming service (no I won't say which one. It's not in English) and update the most watched ranking for it each day. 10-6:30, usually have a lot of free time in the office depending on the day. I live in Japan, so labour laws might be different. So when I joined my company it was a small business of around 30-40 people. Now it's more than doubled in size and the owner has started instituting “traditional” business shit like goal oriented raises and shit. Unfortunately instead of making it “you want a raise, you have to do this” he's made it “everyone has to do this and if you don't we might lower your salary”. And there's MONTHLY 1on1s now with the…


Pertinent info: I work mainly with photoshop and custom content management systems to take screenshots from TV shows given to me and make them pretty enough for a streaming service (no I won't say which one. It's not in English) and update the most watched ranking for it each day. 10-6:30, usually have a lot of free time in the office depending on the day. I live in Japan, so labour laws might be different.

So when I joined my company it was a small business of around 30-40 people. Now it's more than doubled in size and the owner has started instituting “traditional” business shit like goal oriented raises and shit. Unfortunately instead of making it “you want a raise, you have to do this” he's made it “everyone has to do this and if you don't we might lower your salary”. And there's MONTHLY 1on1s now with the leader of each team within the company for team members. So…I have to fill in this form of what my goal is for the next few months and how I want to achieve it but all I want to do is come in, do my job, and go home. And I do do my job. I'm good at my job. Always early. Never turn down work asked of me. What could I possibly write in this form for goals when my goal is to just keep doing what I do? (which I literally asked about at the last 1on1 and they said no)

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