Opportunists don’t demand merit evaluations, and they don’t wait for performance reviews. If you want your boss to really hand you some valuable benefits, you need to do the same for her. Make her life better somehow, then look for reciprocity. You don’t make your boss’s life better by “demonstrating integrity” or whatever pap tends to wind up on official performance review documents. You make her life better by improving her prospects. Find out on what basis she’s being evaluated and what her goals are, and then take steps to make those things happen. The official stuff doesn’t matter.
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