Annual Feedback Overload Cartoon: The Bandwidth Crisis

The Scenario: In this annual feedback overload cartoon, we witness the "Feedback Tsunami."

Because the organization treats performance reviews like a once-a-year dump, the employee is buried under a decade’s worth of "areas for improvement."

The punchline is the ultimate corporate dodge: the manager claims the company literally doesn't have the "bandwidth" to support the employee's growth, turning a management failure into a technical limitation.

The Observation: This piece of appraisal bandwidth humor targets the "Ritualistic Review." It critiques a system that prioritizes the ceremony of the meeting over the actual growth of the individual.

At Kaapi with Ravi, we highlight the comical irony that "bandwidth" is usually only mentioned when a manager wants to avoid doing the actual work of coaching. It’s a snapshot of a feedback loop that has become a feedback knot.

In the world of annual feedback overload, the only thing growing faster than your 'areas of improvement' is your manager's desire to end the meeting.

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• Series: Performance Review Cartoons 

  
  

• Theme: HR Cartoons