Redress of Grievance
A few years ago I was given a poor and unjustified Annual Appraisal. In the 12 months covered there had been no comment or complaint about me or my work and nothing had been said at the 6 month mid-term interview. As my appraisal affected my pay (Civil Service) I complained. Senior Management got back to the first RO and asked him why, if I was so useless, a formal re-training programme had not been put in place to restore me to an acceptable level of efficiency. Report re-written, changes to grades and a good outcome. At the time I was employed by the Civil Service but working for the RAF and my reporting chain was a junior civil servant, an RAF Sqn Ldr and an RAF Wing Commander. No subsequent nastiness carried over into future reports so I was well pleased. That said, I didn't have a career as such nor any promotion prospects so there hardly could have been a bad outcome. Easy for me but maybe not worth risking if you are climbing a career or promotion ladder.