Looking for objective view - HLR feedback received…
For the supervisors out there: consider the following hypothetical in today’s workplace for federal employees…
You carefully write a written narrative describing each of your employees’ performance in each of their 4 performance elements and you assign each element a 3 (fully successful) or 5 (outstanding ) (no one is unsuccessful). You believe you have fairly rated everyone and provided ample written justification for each element. All of your employees except 1 receive overall 5. One employee gets an overall 4 (so it will be counted as a 3). Your supervisor (and the higher level rater calls you into a meeting with him and he informs you that you have one employee currently set to receive an overall rating of 3. You acknowledge that is a true statement. He then informs you that this one employee would be the only person in the office to get below a 5 - you say “ok.” He then says it will reflect poorly on you as a supervisor if one of your employees gets a 3. You ask why and he counters by asking why this is the first time he is hearing about problems with this person’s performance and you point out there were no performance deficiencies- they were rated fully successful. Based on the foregoing information, is this a typical conversation for an HLR to have with a rating official?