How To Handle A Performance Review | Utopia

He is answering correctly. I have done a 'plain speak' session in government, yet we still continue to use the jargon. Just read any government job vacancy and its all jargon and the expectation is you will answer the same way. So the resume can be checked to ensure that all the correct words were used. This is how it, I dont know why its like this, I cannot change it and to speak against it would be deemed not being a team player. So "Did you talk to the neighbours to see what they think?" can become "We consulted with community stake holders for their feedback."

I don't understand why this show didn't become an international hit. It is really funny, a true reflection of the modern-day workplace, and some fantastic acting! I understand it is an Australian TV series, but I live in the UK, so obviously it has international appeal!

My wife is high-up in a Victorian government department and cringes at Utopia. It so accurately portrays working for the government she feels like she's at work!

Come on, Damian, don't you know that only employers can use that sort of mindless newspeak?

I first saw this actor more than a decade ago in a short film called 'Signs'. It's a brilliant short film!

"What's your biggest weakness?"

"I would have to say my honesty"

"Really? I wouldn't see that as a weakness"

"I couldn't give a fiddlers fuck what you think".

Where to watch it

She's brilliant 😂

Well the questions are jargony

You know what happens after? He involves a union rep and changes the review

I want to watch these from America!

This once we had this team away day and one of the items on it was this 360 deg feedback, it never happened lol

If as and or when they arise, from time to time. I wonder if these people actually listen to themselves talk or just regurgitate buzzwords.

The telling part about this video is that you are left with no idea what this company actually does, or what this guy's job is, cos he is never specific about anything.

I am so fucking glad I don't work in an office anymore.

That is by a long shot the best show I have watched recently, witty, funny, realistic, you name it you have it.

Fantastic stuff because it's true, unfortunately.

This is what the education system churns out. Public servants and politicians who talk under wet cement. Drive a person nuts.
.... true story.

is greatest weakness the same as least strength?

“Happy with 180.”

Yeh me too.

The "No, you said specific" made me want to jump off a cliff. 😂

HR is the bane of society.

The most dangerous thing in the universe is bureaucrat.

Buzzwords are also a disease of corporate management. How many Townhall's have you been to where you could predict about 80% of what was going to be said? It's a snoozefest. I think one reason the big Tech companies are so valuable is they have more of a competency hierarchy (rather than power hierarchy). Probably because it's harder to fake that you are good at programming or math. And the cultural norms don't allow purveyors of empty "corporate speak" to rise to the top.

This is something I appreciate about my job. If someone asked me "what I had accomplished, specifically" I'd laugh at how clueless the question was.

"I fixed that thing, I finished the upgrade of this thing, I did that upgrade without any instructions, I got those people to tell me how to change on software on this thing..."

Literally nothing in my region would work without me. On a daily basis it's crystal clear what I've accomplished.

I'm Aussie, in my 30s and most job interviews have been a breeze. It's always been just a check that you didn't BS too much on your CV. I'd couldn't survive in this market, glad I went overseas. The BS jargon without anything to back it up is the only way forward.

Corporations shouldn't be surprised they get the answers they trained us to give.

This is painful to watch it's so accurate .

Damn, I wish could pull BS like this in interview with such confidence and class.

That ‘Independent Consultation’ scene is so indicative of the pointlessness of this sort of government engagement. As soon as they knew which direction the ‘client’ wanted to go, the outcome of the consultation was determined. And that’s government contracting in a nutshell.

Like a QF interview

You’re all very talented but I hate this so much

Wasn't expect her to be that attractive

I love this actress, 💙

Just did an interview. The interviewee, could not answer one question directly. I mean not even a binary answer.

What great eyebrows that guy has.

Bah 2024 This program is not currently available in ABC iview.

360 degree feedback actually means that you, get feedback from all around you from 10 different people, instead of your actual manager. You don't actually get to give important feedback to anymore when you are just a worker bee!

Why does a person that does mundane work pay have to talk about this? Neither managers nor employees enjoy these reviews.

Weakness? I insist on getting paid.

Your typical straight cis gender right wing male responses: word 🥗

I swear the function of an organization or department boils down to the efforts of about three people. There just happen to be a lot more people employed

He was a white male.
Fail.

Damien is my most hated character of Utopia.

The fact he couldn’t give one single example of anything he’d actually done is classic .This type of verbal fuckery is in most white collar professions these days as is the total lack of self awareness and sense of entitlement..

So brilliant! 😂 I’ve worked with people like that.

I have the opposite problem - my management loves this kind of bullshit say-a-lot-but-say-nothing business jargon and I am physically incapable of reeling it off.

It is funny but Kamala Harris answered the what weaknesses do you have just like this. i.e. I am not perfect so I take advice from clever educated advisers to help me make decisions.
I think she has had media training.

I would like to think that this is not true but we are 2 days from an American election and Harris has played this strategy to the full and is still in the game. All the way to the top baby.

Good pay and work-from-home would be the job to go for.