One of the worst writing exercises especially for me who is a procrastinator, "purely acts on inspiration" type of writer, is writing the performance review. It, coupled with any write up that involves, your work self, like some job sites ask you to write about your biggest achievement, or summarize your work self. It is plain and simple torture. It is inanimate self talk. You try to sound academic and profound when in and of itself you spend your days at work doing simply what you are asked to do and not what you want to do, or trying not to think so much out of the box so they do not reprimand you for your "new-agey" appeal.
The sad part about the performance review is that there is no review. It's been predetermined. Unlike a person that is forced to write a good movie script knowing that the better the movie is, the better reviews you would receive from the critics. But in a performance review, it is total opposite, the work "critics" have already rated the movie a C even without you putting pen to paper. They've gone to the presses ready and waiting and as soon as the movie is released, the press prints the already written review. So why put us through the torture of writing about your "work self."
Spare me that and give me the reviews like the bitter pill that it is.
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