Exceed expectations

 Now the administration is talking about how candidates for promotion should "exceed" expectations rather than must meeting them. But that means (as I pointed out in the union meeting today) that the expectations are not the expectations any more.  The stated expectations, in other words, are not the real ones. If they say you need six articles, but you actually need nine, then nine is the new "expectation." Of course, we are all above average, so it will never come to that.  Everyone's expectations are inflationary, so departments will continue to rank everyone as excellent, and "very good" will come to mean mediocre.