Posted on Aug 29, 2015
When looking back at past Performance Reports, what are some glaring differences or suprising items to find in them?
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As I go back into the performance reports, it strikes me: 1) How much "white space" is in the older reports as compared to the newer ones having the requirement to fill all spaces with type, 2) How weak some of the statements were allowed to be, 3) The change in writing styles between supervisors, and 4) Finding a bullet that somebody else did.
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Several of my early EPRs had wraparound bullets as well as sub-bullets. Also, a few had 5-10 spaces of white at the end of the line...never get away with that stuff nowadays.
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The one that slays me now is the wrap around double line bullet. I have a few early EPRs that have them. They are so much easier to understand what the heck I did, but now my head kind of explode thinking about all the "wasted space".
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In civilian world, I've had to write my own performance reports and submit them to my supervisor. Document everything I did in the last 4 months, routine or on my own initiative. Add in all the promotional stuff, the team campaigns as well as the volunteer stuff I agreed to do in the company's name. Then I had to compose a summery about how good an employee I was. I'm ok with tooting my own horn now and then, but some quarters, we weren't doing anything special, so I had to really reach to make anything sound of value, and the company wanted that. Its grueling no matter how it's done.
I think if I had just said, "Sherry did what needed doing." I'd have been fired, but sometimes that's all it added up to.
I think if I had just said, "Sherry did what needed doing." I'd have been fired, but sometimes that's all it added up to.
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MSgt Niclas Svensson
I've written every one of my own EPRs, save one, since I sewed on SSgt.
Sure they were tweaked by my supervisor or further down the line, but many of them are virtually identical to the draft I originally submitted to my supervisor.
It seems fairly commonplace in the AF to write your own report, at least from what I've witnessed.
Sure they were tweaked by my supervisor or further down the line, but many of them are virtually identical to the draft I originally submitted to my supervisor.
It seems fairly commonplace in the AF to write your own report, at least from what I've witnessed.
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