Mr. Manager! You are number 1!

All organisations (big or small) have an appraisal system for their staff. Our company is one such mutinational accounting firm who have a sophisticated system of sorts. After a tough audit season, we are currently in the process of doing appraisals of our colleagues and seniors.

One aspect of appraisal is to grade the randomly selected colleagues on a scale of 1-5. Number 1 being 'Significant improvement required' to number 5 being 'Outstanding'.

Apparently, one guthra clad Saudi colleague goes to one manager and says ' Mr. Manager (name not disclosed) I like working with you very much. So I give you no. 1 Because you are really no.1! All manager very good. I gave number 1 to all!"

Knowing that peer appraisals are being carried out...our Mr. Managers rush off to the HR partner on this blunder of unimaginable proportions, fearing that the next promotion would be stalled.

A lighter moment to share with you after a hard season of number crunching.