Got my first performance assessment at my new job. I was about a few weeks away from finishing probation and I absolutely love this job and the people I work with. The best job I've had so far. I went today in with a smile on my face and spring in my step. I chatting with the manager like any other day and they pull me aside before I start and read out my performance assessment over the last 5ish months.
I thought I was doing very well. I learned so much and I work really hard and I get along with all my coworkers. But according to my assessment I: don't finish my work before moving onto something else, don't know enough about the products we sell, don't have any drive or ambition to do work, stand around and get distracted, you get the idea. I essentially bombed it somehow. Apparently these are reports from my coworkers and from what the managers have seen when we worked together.
The thing is I rarely work with the managers, and I only ever work the evening shifts so there isn't a huge abundance of things to do sometimes. I always go to the shift lead and ask for things to do if I'm standing around. Maybe every now and then I cut a few corners when I'm tired, get distracted sometimes by conversation and whatnot but I always try to stay busy. I feel like there is a bias here because the only people who would talk to managers about me would be people saying bad things about me.
I come in when they call me in, and I do what they tell me and don't question it within reason. And of course I don't know every small detail about the products, I only started the job five months ago (20ish hours per week), and we sell a huge variety of product.
I was really disappointed by this because I thought I was doing very well. I'm not perfect and I can still learn but I feel I've been unfairly judged. Getting lowest marks on practically all categories really hit my confidence and makes me think twice about the people I work with.
TLDR: Got a bad performance review over some pretty unfair criteria.