Today's Unshelved is quite timely in light of the OSBP: [link]

Oh, y'all. If I knew I'd get so much love, I'd rant sooner.

As for the "Righteous woman, would you like Sabbath candles?" question, I must clarify something - some of the clothes and cleavages I wore while being asked that left no room to doubt about just how religious I might be. Those women simply suggest the candles to any woman who looks Jewish (in the sense of any woman who's not wearing a veil or a cross).

Also, I totally want a NO shirt in Hebrew

I'm going to ask a friend of mine to do the design. If you want, I'll send it to you.

I hate my self-assessment for many reasons

1. I want someone to evaluate me-- I don't want to evaluate myself and update my own job description.

2. It is really dumb, because my bosses position is being eliminated so my goals for next year are sort of moot, and she sort of does not give a crap right now, she is just trying to find a job.

3. The assessment contains questions that are very similar to each other like "Where to you want to make improvements next year?" and "What are 3 -5 goals you will complete next year?". Also, although I know everyone needs improvement, I am at this real point with this not so hard job that there aren't a lot of improvements I can make except to stop screwing around on the internet. I mean, I know how to do my job.

I finally read the OSBP post. It strikes me as a hoax. I'm not sure why.

I can believe a spontaneous grope-a-thon happening at a con. Strange things happen at cons, and I'm sure that wouldn't be the strangest.

But to think it's feasible to organize such a thing -- immature even by the standards of 15-year-olds.

"Where to you want to make improvements next year?" and "What are 3 -5 goals you will complete next year?". Also, although I know everyone needs improvement, I am at this real point with this not so hard job that there aren't a lot of improvements I can make except to stop screwing around on the internet. I mean, I know how to do my job.

I am so glad my company seems to have stopped doing the personal development questions.

Would you krav the dude, ita?

Hells yeah.

there aren't a lot of improvements I can make except to stop screwing around on the internet

And where's the fun in that? Which is to say--I know what you mean. Self assessments are flawed in most implementations. I know what they think they're getting at--I know what I thought I was getting at when I was in management, but it's part of that pretend world where the company is your mommy and your daddy and loves you very much.

"Where to you want to make improvements next year?" and "What are 3 -5 goals you will complete next year?".

it's part of that pretend world where the company is your mommy and your daddy and loves you very much.

Yes! That's a very good way to put it! I *hate* that shit!

I would much rather they say "We want you to work better for the money we pay you. Do you want to tell us how we can make you do that? Otherwise, we have our own ideas." It's at least honest.

Here is the thing-- I almost never think about my goals between yearly assessments, because I am too busy doing my job. And as an admin, there is really only so much I can do toward any goal that isn't "reorganize my own personal filing system" because my job is like, assisting other people. I think those people should tell me what my goals are.

I try really hard to approach these goals like a do New years Resolutions-- making them easily attainable and something I was going to do anyway. So-- 'Pay all instructors ina timely manner' is for me, a good goal, because, you know, I would do that anyway.

My boss also asks me for a personal goal. Last year it was get a cat

I think the most annoying thing about self evaluations is that the information is NEVER USED for anything. So you struggle to come up with the right amount of humility while patting yourself on the back combined with telling your boss what they want to hear and it ends up filed away by HR and nothing ever comes of it.

My boss also asks me for a personal goal. Last year it was get a cat

Maybe you should put down "Get a bigger cat" for this year's.