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Can a former supervisor email a late performance evaluation to you at your new job and copy your new boss?

I left a bad division in March of 2012 and went on a 6 week medical leave because I was treated very badly, I was even hospitalized for 3 days before I went on the leave. Fortunately I was able to transfer to another division. When I left I hadn't been given a performance evaluation which was due late May. However I started my new position in May and have been there 3 1/2 months under a different manager and things have been great working here and so much better. I was putting all this behind me. Then yesterday the other manager from where I worked before emailed a late performance evaluation to me and copied my new supervisor and told me to sign it and give it to her (my new boss). The evaluation was negative of course ("needs improvement") and a lot of bad stuff was written about me on another document that corresponds to the eval form and it made me look like an inept idiot that couldn't do her job. Isn't it unethical for one thing to just "email" a negative evaluation to your new job 2 1/2 months late and copy your new boss? Doesn't that make the evaluation invalid? Just the fact that nobody went over it with me and allowed me to give input was wrong. But I had already transferred out before the evaluation was due. I know this was done in retaliatory measure. Now I have to "explain" this to my new supervisor today. She knew some of what happened but not all of it. I wanted that to be behind me. Now she knows all of the stuff they said about me that were lies, twisted fabrications. I can appeal it. But I was told by a former co-worker that they could make it worse for me if I don't just sign it.

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  • michr
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    of course they can, you are still employed by the same company, you still have the same personnel file, all management still needs to be aware of your work related issues......

    since you are doing so great now; this will be proof of how far you have come, and it will actually show that the problems you had in the past may not have been all your fault...

    this late performance review may be the best thing that happened to you as you go forward....

  • lucy
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Poster Michr hit it right on the head.

    (IF), this evaluation had been sent to your new boss before the transfer, they could have decided not to allow you to transfer to the other position, for fear you would not be able to do the other job.

    But now that you have started in the new position and you are doing great, the past could be considered irrelevant.

    But be careful if you talk to your new boss about the past. Otherwise, if you bad mouth your prior boss, he may "think" differently of you. Just say, it was a bad fit and glad you have your new boss to work for.

    good luck

  • 9 years ago

    Yes, they can do that. Of course it doesn't make it invalid.

    You are within the same company. The new boss woudl recieve the evaluation anyway. Nothing at all odd about it in any way.

  • 9 years ago

    If it's working for the same company then yes they sure can. All managers talk when you apply for a different job in the company and its for your employee record that the eval needed to be done.

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