Jeff Grigg
Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read

Just to throw a contrarian idea out there (that *has* been rattling around my mind in some of these “career guidance” meetings)…

If you think that giving me “feedback about work performance” is one of your responsibilities, but you do not know what I’ve been doing for the past month or more, then *What makes you think that you are qualified to do this?*

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(Yea; any senior person can give useful advise to just about any junior person, even without much of any context. But at this point, I’m more experienced than most of the “career mentors” that they could assign to me. And so I have a “pretty high bar,” in terms of expectations, before I consider my “superior’s” feedback to be useful.)

Even given that, I see the article as helpful in most cases for most people.