Workday reviews

Returned from maternity leave and after leaving detailed documentation/coverage plan, no coverage was actually put in place so upon my return I’m having to front customers and take one for the team since their dissatisfaction is low (since they had no coverage while I was out). Also, when accepting original job agreed to travel of 5-10%, was part of a reorganization where I had no choice on what direction I wanted to go so all customers are outside my home city, nothing local any longer. On top of traveling for customers (2-3 times a month) have to travel for group events putting my travel at 75-90%. Tried speaking to my manager about said topic and I’m told I need to think about my career and instead of helping me prioritize the travel insinuated that my job is not secure and that I’m letting my colleagues down. On top of a day to day job where I’m getting beat down by customers, I have no support of my management chain, related to work and the amount of the workload OR my personal life. I want to laugh at the great place for parents award, I have nobody on my immediate team who is a parent, including my manager so when trying to speak about the above and sharing the impact to my family I am told I need to think about my career options. And, performance management. If you happen to take maternity leave, don’t do it in H2. Any work you do in H1 is forgotten (even if you document it) so don’t think you will ever be considered for a promotion and you are essentially forgotten in any performance conversation therefore leading to a minimal merit increase.

Management is deceptive; they will say one thing to your face, but their actions show otherwise. They ask you to be transparent with them, but they will use the information you give them to their advantage (ie. if they know you will eventually be moving on from Workday, they will not give you any raises or compensation for your past year's review even though an annual review is based on past year's performance and not what you will be doing in the future). DO NOT tell management anything regarding your future plans. Some workers on certain teams are incompetent and lazy. Will take long vacations and knowing that their vacation date is coming up, will delay their work and not finish because they know someone else will pick up their slack. Some will always wait until the end of sprints to log bugs or start work so that they can pretend that they were super busy the whole sprint; therefore, the need to roll over stories. People are being hired just because they are related to someone who already works here or is someone's friend. For example, the qualification for a QA Engineer job here is at least 5 years minimum in QA. In the QA industry, if you have actually been working for 5 years, you would know what TDD or BDD or other commonly used QA terms mean. I have seen QAs in meetings ask what TDD or BDD mean and have asked for explanations. This tells me that they probably got the job through a family/friend and/or faked their resume to get the job. Annual raises is based on how much you suck up to management, and how much they like you. Even if you do all your work and take everything they dump on you, if management doesn't like you, your raises won't be as high as someone who did less work but is a friend of management. People using all sorts of excuses on a regular basis to work from home or not come in to work. Here are a few that I've seen: -It's hard to turn my steering wheel, I'll be wfh -I need to stay home for a package or go home to sign for a package -I need to go feed my dog/cat -I have a haircut appointment today, i'll be wfh -Traffic is heavy right now, i'll be wfh The best place to work for award? That's total bull. It's what management sends out to their employees every year and asking them to fill out. Of course most employees will always give the company they work for a super high rating.