How do you feel when your boss says "You have not anything extra ordinary"

I would really feel bad about it, that I am doing everything I can and my boss still says something not nice and just tell that it was just my duty, but you know boss are like that, they expect you to sweep heavens and earth and still thinks that it is just part of your duty and responsibility. hey what is your line of work?

Try not to feel discouraged. I have encountered the same thing, and I didn't understand it until I was a manager. What often happens is the manager or supervisor is told by their superior that they are going on a budget. Many times, the manager is under a lot of pressure to ensure high productivity and near perfect compliance with contract guidelines and policies. When it is time for evaluations, the executives tell the manager how many can be promoted and how much of a raise he or she can give. I once had an employee whom I felt deserved a raise. I talked to the account managers (I was a shift supervisor), and explained that the employee was dedicated and punctual, that she had put in a lot of overtime and was training new people in addition to her regular duties. They wouldn't even permit me to give her a .25 cent raise per hour. They said the reason was that her log book was inaccurate. This was not something I could check because they used vidio survailance tapes to check the logs and I didn't have access to them. I felt that the real reason was budgetary concerns because I had heard the managers discussing them when I was doing paperwork in their office. The lady quit working there a few weeks later because she had said some unflattering things about the managers on a recorded line--this was due to her anger and frustration. I thought why would the managers put people in a position where they would want to quit or get fired? Then I found out that there are attrition numbers assigned to that contract. There always has to be a certain number of new people coming in and going out. This keeps the contract holder from having to pay reasonable benefits and ensures that the employees that they have on the contract have been recently trained. I never met anyone there who had worked there for more than 2 years, with the exception of the three executives in charge. I myself quit after 10 months because moral was so poor and I felt powerless to change anything. There can be a whole lot more going on than what is in that appraisal. Good luck!

Thankfully this has never come up for me but if it did I would assess the situation and think very hard on it to determine whether the Bosses statements might actually be true. If I came to the conclusion that he may have a point I would prove him wrong and blow him away in the coming months! If I felt that it was a totally unfair statement I would argue my case and if there was STILL the same conclusion from the Bosses end then I would probably consider working somewhere else and start looking for a job with a company that appreciated me.

When someone tells me that i am not upto their mark, I ask them what is wrong that i can correct. Its always nice to hear people pointing out our mistakes. Thats the best way to correct it. So, whenever people tell u that u are not extra ordinary, ask them what can make u extra ordinary.I know that u are not Superman, but become a man with some extra skills.Develop something extra ordinary like coming to office on time, work on time, eat ur lunch on time and back home on time. Thats what i call "Punctuality".

Were these their actual words? For me I would have asked what they thought of as being extra ordinary and then considered my job description to see if this was something that was expected of me in my role. If not then I would have asked myself if it would have been something that I could have done, was it a form of progression? No one likes to hear words like these, certainly not me, but I would try and turn it to my advantage by saying If you expect me to do that, you need to add it to my job description, teehee ... but then I expect a pay rise! I am lucky in that I have a boss who regularly praises me for a job well done. If I mess up then we talk about it, the negatives but also the positives but then we draw a line under it and move on. I think if your boss wants something more from you "ie something extra ordinary" then they left it too late to tell you at your appraisal!