Am I being fooled @Yubi?

I had good manager and good colleagues atleast some of them. I was working at latest tech stack given enough opportunities and yes I had whatever I needed. They made me carry individual responsibility never doubted on my work and gave flexibility. My managers were human atleast. But I guess they did this all to extract work of me. I wasnt able to prepare because of constant deliverables day and night work with one singular promise that the rewards would be great. And when the first year of appraisal turned out to be gray I was made to believe that the person who shows commitment and accountability even in tough times would remain first priority in any case.

I totally understand. I empathise with you. Trust me I have been there. Worked day and night for years, weekends, long nights till 4-5 AM in the morning. I learned the lesson the hard way. I don't want anyone to go through this again. I wish you the best. Don't trust verbal commitments, most of the time in corporate they are just empty promises.

I should never have believed I guess. I was thinking all good people in corporate. My manager HR all said soft words that you are the valuable resource and it was true to a point. I got more and more work entire new application to build from scratch. However, after first year of 0 appraisals I became skeptical. Then came the macroeconomic conditions which forced them to do I thought. They even convinced me that the next year you would be rewarded what you deserve and because of your consistent delivery, you will be receive rewarding career here. Having said all that and market conditions outside I decided to spend this year. Now HR people is ghosting me even my managers are not telling a firm thing about ratings.

Again when would they realize announce. I heard GK calibration has already started. Even with a very lowball around 5 percent appraisal why do they have to do this many meetings? I totally dont get it