That time of year again...

Every year, my company, like most, does employee evaluations. I can see the benefit of an evaluation: to give an employee a clear view of their worth to the organization for which they work. Fine. Dandy. No problem.

However, I think my company cheats. They make us do self-evaluations. Not as a part of the review, but pretty much as the whole review. I know how I think I'm doing, I just want to know how much of that has been reflected back to the corporate offices. Most years, I would say I want to know if they know exactly how good I am at what I do. This year, I'd have to be honest and say that I want to know if they really realize how burned out I am and if that's reflected in my work. Either way, I won't get that, and I think it's just a cop out, a way to make us do the bulk of the work rather than our managers.