http://www.momstowork.com/05/12/ask-for-performance-reviews-before-crying-if-laid-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ask-for-performance-reviews-before-crying-if-laid-off Because All Mothers Are Working Mothers Thu, 10 May 2012 23:12:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.momstowork.com/05/12/ask-for-performance-reviews-before-crying-if-laid-off/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Kate Motherguild Fri, 22 May 2009 01:11:30 +0000 http://momstowork.com/?p=561#comment-600 This is excellent advice, and in face I would suggest asking for a copy of your entire personnel file. That should include your hire letter, any notes or e-mails about your performance that your manager has saved (as a manager, I was encouraged to put things like this in my direct reports' folders) and stuff you might not even know is in there. When I resigned and asked for a copy of my personnel file, it blew them away -- the manager sputtered and said "I've never heard of anything like this." But they did it. This is excellent advice, and in face I would suggest asking for a copy of your entire personnel file. That should include your hire letter, any notes or e-mails about your performance that your manager has saved (as a manager, I was encouraged to put things like this in my direct reports’ folders) and stuff you might not even know is in there. When I resigned and asked for a copy of my personnel file, it blew them away — the manager sputtered and said “I’ve never heard of anything like this.” But they did it.

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