Employee calls out coworker after she gets glowing performance review for sending weekly email to upper management summarizing everyone else's hard work

Apparently, in this office, the trick to getting promoted has nothing to do with actually doing the work.

This employee may have been a bit naive when she assumed that hard work and dedication alone would grant her the promotion she wanted ever since she first got hired. She wanted to believe that after three years at the company, her work could speak for itself. She wouldn't have to remind everyone how good she is at her job, nor would she have to prove herself any more than she already does.

Well, this all changed when she and a coworker on her team had their annual performance reviews. The coworker had not been working at the company nearly as long as the employee had, and yet, it was the coworker who was praised for "exceeding expectations," whereas the employee was not nearly as praised by upper management.

Why is that, you may be asking? Well, it turns out that the useless weekly email the coworker sends every Friday afternoon, summarizing what all the actual hard workers on the team have accomplished, was actually… pretty useful in the eyes of their boss.

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My coworker got a "exceeds expectations" on her review for sending a weekly summary email that literally just recaps what's already in our shared spreadsheet

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While it is incredibly frustrating to see someone get praised at work for her performative competence, there is an unfortunate lesson to be learned here. We would all like to think that those in charge are grounded enough to tell who is actually good at their job and who isn't. However, the vast majority of the time, what they are focusing on is metrics and optics.
This employee's coworker may have been taking credit for other people's work constantly, but if she was doing one thing right, she was clearly finding a way to show upper management that she cared about the team's success. Sure, it's annoying. She should not be getting extra points for co-opting other people's accomplishments, and maybe one day that will come back to haunt her.
In the meantime, however, it would behoove the employee to find her own way of showing her clueless boss just how hard she is working.
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