My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
The title is not a question, it's a statement.
However, the situation where a company does not recognise an employees achievements is quite normal.
Are your achievements directly work related or extra-curricular?
Are your achievements over and above the scope of what you are paid to do?
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
- Steve
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
My manager send a mail for safety essaywriting and he promise to give award on top paper.
I wrote a paper on ERT(Emergency Response Team) and my paper get much apperication inside refinery.
but I have not got any award, later on I come to know management was not happy because in my paper company weaknesses was outlined.
More over, I have done some out standing jobs which my supervisor can't do.
I have many things to say but this is enough for more discussion.
thanks
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Also when outlining "weaknesses" you need to be careful and helpful. Don't just throw out issues that need attention. You aren't the only one that knows the issues. Give corrective actions and things you can do to resolve the situation. Then do them and make improvements. That is exceeding your job expectation to a degree.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Do a great job on every project and your award will be personal gratification, a stable career, and respect from others.
If you 'need' an award, there are free download templates from Microsoft, print it out and display proudly on your wall.
Chris
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Dear (blank)
Thank you for doing whatever it was that you did, yada yada yada.
The CEO (bitmap of signature)
It made me feel so proud. The cheque cleared though.
- Steve
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Is your job function to write essays on safety? If not, then I wouldn't waste any time worrying about it.
If your essay did, indeed, point out some areas that made your company look bad, then someone in management may have not wanted to celebrate this fact.
If you want to be recognized for your achievements at work, then I suggest you find out what things would maximize your boss, his boss, and his boss' boss' bonus and take home pay. Do everything you can to make the most money for your bosses, and they'll be more aware of your achievements.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
The last award I received was for donating a total of 5 gallons of blood, and that was just a piece of paper, unless of course you consider the piece of paper I get every two weeks as I skip to the bank. Otherwise I agree with ctopher.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Sounds like you are in a refinery. Several of those type companies wait till they have a good sized burp (explosion) before they go over ways to improve saftey.
Awards sometime give the appearance of you being a brown-noser.
Up to now coworkers cannot make this assumption.
Good Luck.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
While you don't explicitly define what you consider appreciation there are numerous possibilities, an informal verbal 'well done', a written 'well done', a little trinket, a formal award, a bonus, a pay increase...
You don't say which you were expecting.
If I'd written, and apparantly circulated a report pointing out major failings of my employer I'd have probably been rewarded with a pink slip (laid off).
I routinely for all but the first few months of my career have done things my manager couldn't do, didn't mean I expected a plaque to put on the wall every time I cracked open the CAD system or typed at more than 25 words per minute.
At the end of the day, if you don't feel you get the recognition you deserve, and have made reasonable efforts to 'blow your own trumpet' without taking it too far then you have the option of finding alternative employment.
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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Managers need to look good to their own managers.
When asking for an "essay" (report?) he expects a report that will make him look good. Especially a report with an award attached because this sounds like oe of those management wheezes designed to make your manager look like he is a fast track material and here you are pointing out "weaknesses".
If you discover failings then talk to him before committing it to writing .... these things assume huge importance in legal cases..... of course, if there is a serious safety issue then it should be brought to managements attention in the proper manner, give your boss a way to present it or resolve the issue in a manner that doesn't make him look like a goof.
I hope you didn't point this out to your supervisor?
Managers are human too (a sub species, maybe, but human none the less) and they don't ever like their subordinates to be, or appear to be, better than they are. They feel threatened and will pursuade themselves that the subordinate is looking for an excuse to embarrass them and take their job..... your report may well be just that....way to go!
The one thing worse than to speak inadvisedly is to write inadvisedly. One can always tamper with peoples recollections of what was actually said or the tone in which they were spoken but the written record?
-- Omar Khayyam ... how wise that man was.
The lesson best learned as early in your career as possible is that the workplace is a complex environment which is not ruled by logic but by human weakness and politics. Diplomacy is your best survival tool, that and an up to date CV.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
I've seen a bunch of personal injury cases hinge on such reports as proving company fore-knowledge of the root cause of the injury--that adds zeros to the right-hand end of the settlement and can push the review from "negligence" to "gross negligence" which can add a significant multiplier to the settlement.
Everything you've written above sounds like you've mistaken "objective analysis" for "exposing faults and assessing blame". The second time you do the latter, your boss will start looking for someplace to park you that is out of his hair (preferably on the street in a bad neighborhood).
David
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
I call it my survivor award.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
We do sometime have to ask people to be in conditions that could be deadly. We don't need the constant reminder of that fact. It is destracting and can make the condition worse.
Like airline pilots who may only face one major event in there working life. There knoledge and training is there saving grace.
It's better to not point out the problems to managment, but to offer a training solution.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
I must be mistaken, but it seems that in a few of the posts here people are advocating a sort of cover-up of dangerous products and/or conditions. If you believe there is a danger to human safety, you should just keep quiet about it? Really? Management doesn't even want to know?
I'd say any company that operates in that kind of head in the sand way *is* guilty of gross negligence and should be fined if not shut down.
Maybe people are instead saying that they believe the management is always fully aware of all risks and doesn't need any more information. That might be the case, but maybe that doesn't matter. In my experience, managers often have an incentive to push for shorter schedules and less money spent without paying much regard to risk. The system depends on other people, either the customers, a labor union, the government, or the engineer to push back. If the push back never happens, maybe the company ends up putting out dangerous junk as a product.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
You should immediately attempt to amend your paper and resubmit it. If that is not possible, write a follow-up to clearly explain what can be done to rectify the problems. Always remain positive when discussing problems. Yes, you pointed out that the problem exists but now point out how fixing the problem will lead to greater safefy, higher profits, or a leaner work flow.
In other words, your positive contribution should be to provide innovative solutions to problems, not to simply point out the existence of problems. This strategy will identify you as someone who wants to make things better instead of merely complaining about them.
Instead of calling out "problems", present your ideas as process or product improvements. When you improve something, it logically follows that you are solving a problem. However, you eliminate the need to call out the problem per se. For example, I may propose a method to improve safety in a manufacturing facility by installing larger corner mirrors at intersections so fork truck drivers can get a better view of pedestrian traffic. It logically follows that the facility is currently using mirrors that are too small but I didn't have to make that blatant statement.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Thank you for your comments on my question and I take your words as golden advice.
Especially, JMW, who clear my worries very well, after reading your all comments, I corrected my self and got satisfied.
Indeed,my way was not correct and I was on wrong direction.
Thanks
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Sometimes, you have to choose between doing the right thing, or the thing that will further your career (or at least extend your time at the current job till you can find something else).
KENAT,
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
The responses from me at least, where about that.
The situation of safety issues is especially critical and I hope I didn't give the impression that they should be covered up. What I really wanted to suggest is that there is a right way and a wrong way to address such issues or any issues at all and a "copies to everyone" memo ain't necessarily it. We can even surmise that in some cases it might actually be counter-productive.
Safety issues should be dealt with appropriately.
If dealt with appropriately but not acted upon then that is another issue.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
If we ask any number of people about the safety aspects of a particular activity we will find a surprising degree of dissent.
My Nephew thinks sky diving is tame and base jumping is cool. His mother thinks otherwise.
He thinks she doesn't know anything about anything and she thinks he doesn't know enough to know what is dangerous and what isn't.
Hmm.
Safety is not a simple case of black and white.
In an industrial environment there are a great many aspects that require skill and training to properly assess.
So, if you do not have the training to be a health and safety inspector, then you might wish to consult someone with experience before ringing the fire bell.
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
But work with them and use each other's skills, because they usually don't have the specialist technical knowledge to correctly assess the hazards in many industrial situations. Good relations between engineering and the safety advisors are invaluable and well worth developing.
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If we learn from our mistakes I'm getting a great education!
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
My interpretation of the original post was that there was some sort of safety essay request; the OP used his safety essay to point out flaws in the company's safety system. If this safety essay was to be a corporate PR sort of thing, then his response was not what was wanted.
If your boss wants a nice fluffy safety piece written, for example, for the company newsletter, then pointing out deficiencies will not win you friends.
For those married forum members, if your spouse asks 'How does this look on me, dear?', the advisable response is not, 'Well, you know, you could lose a few pounds, and tighten up those abs'.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Many of you, are ado-vacating the managerial positions and blaming on attitude and the way I went on this subject, what is your response on this, if a company does not have record for past 10 years no training on safety and refresher courses.
This not weakness or flaw in there procedures.
I have read also, lot of Managing the people in organization and finally the result is like you people advising.
come back on the question and we can discuss more on attitude and behavior of management.
Thanks
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
What some of us are saying though, is that it's reality and you have to learn to work with it/around it or, in some cases, get the heck out of their while you still have 10 fingers & 10 toes etc.
For a job where Safety is clearly a major concern, or at least the potential implications of not being safe, no training etc. is not OK.
The issue is how to deal with it. Your first salvo being a widely cirulated report where you point out managements failings, or at least that's how management perceive it, was not a smart first move in most environments.
KENAT,
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
What I find hard to appreciate is: you expect recognition from writing a paper?
What if your boss once practiced what you are now doing and you are doing it with 10times the competence, and he/she simply doesnt want to accept that, seeing you as a rival, yet finds a way to have you around because you are the only one with the required competence, hence useful to him/her?
You get zero credit in whatever you do. And you are continuously robbed off. YOu survive by being allowed to hang around.
Jmw is right: A complex environment with politics and other things in it.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
You want hear my contribution? Our 2nd biggest supplier cut us out one year ago, suddenly we had no supply for several high volume products but a small inventory. I teamed with several other people and quickly defined two potential suppliers. Now, one years later, all the products we got from new suppliers were tested and were found even better than before. Did I get any recognition? Pretty much zero except my boss stated in my performance review I was critical to this potetially devastating issue and my boss's boss said my expertise is extremely valuable.
And guys, several million dollars products I am talking about. I am certainly not satisfied, but happy enough that I still got a job.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
The OP had certain expectations because, as he said;
"Let me Clear about my achievements.
My manager send a mail for safety essaywriting and he promise to give award on top paper."
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
From which may be spawned SNORGY's modern day version:
"To arouse the ire of your Mentor,
Write your message and press ENTER.
But wiser is the He or She
Who makes judicious use of BACKSPACE key."
-- Snorgy --
Regards,
SNORGY.
RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
My boss's boss's boss is retiring. I dropped him a note, and his response included a comment that I do "wondrous things" for my employer, "which go unrecognized".
And I'm thinkin', dammit, don't tell ME that, tell everyone else, so that I *can* be recognized!
Hg
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Hg
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
Who the hell writes essays for work? What kind of place is this, jr. high engineer of the future class?
Star for SNORGY
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RE: My Achievements not Getting recognized in my Company
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