They put in a new system at my job last year, and they made a whole song and dance about how 3 is "meets expectations" and the expectations are really high, so most people should get a 3. So I gave myself a 3. My boss didn't hear the song and dance this year, so I got a 4. That's something.

they made a whole song and dance about how 3 is "meets expectations" and the expectations are really high, so most people should get a 3.

We get that too. So then isn't it kind of pointless except for the people who aren't 3s? But we all have to go through the process and spend the time.

"Yes, 3 is meet expectations. But, you know, a really dedicated employee would want to do more than just meet expectations."

Is the thinking here.

They put in a new system at my job last year, and they made a whole song and dance about how 3 is "meets expectations" and the expectations are really high, so most people should get a 3. So I gave myself a 3.

This is us. And after saying it for a long time we're really living it, and cue a whole lot of Type A people flipping right the fuck out.

Of course, I am also shrift this year, so come year end I may be one of them.

check out Obama's image response to Romney's 47% remark.

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I suspect it will not stop here.

cue a whole lot of Type A people flipping right the fuck out.

Oh yes.

The Onion: still our finest news source:

Romney Apologizes to Nations 150 million starving beggars. [link]

SALT LAKE CITY—Seeking to limit the fallout from a videotaped speech in which he asserts 47 percent of Americans “pay no taxes” and do not take “personal responsibility and care for their lives,” Mitt Romney hastily called a press conference today to apologize personally to the “150 million starving, filthy beggars [he] might have offended.”

Saying that he deeply regretted his choice of words at a private $50,000-a-plate fundraising function in May—during which he argued “[his] job is not to worry” about the lower-earning half of the nation’s populace—Romney personally appealed to the country’s “dirt-caked garbage pickers and toothless street urchins” for forgiveness.

“First and foremost, I would like to offer a heartfelt apology to all the whores, junkies, bums, and grime-covered derelicts out there who make up nearly half our nation,” a visibly contrite and solemn Romney said outside a campaign stop at a local high school. “Let me assure you that I in no way meant to offend any of the putrid-smelling, barefoot masses out there. My campaign is not about dividing this nation, but about bringing all sides together—the rich, elegant members of the upper class, as well as the 47 percent who are covered in flies and eat directly from back-alley dumpsters.”

They put in a new system at my job last year, and they made a whole song and dance about how 3 is "meets expectations" and the expectations are really high, so most people should get a 3.

This is my company also. And I darned well better get an exceeds this year. I've busted my ass far beyond my usual. It is probably also about time for us to do our self evals also. My manager is on the other side of the world right now and I'll probably forget to ask him when he gets back. But he is well aware that my ass is busted.

Romney Apologizes to Nations 150 million starving beggars.

That is some beautifully Dickensian wordsmithery right there.

Romney is in Utah for the next few days to hold a few more thousands-of-dollars-a-plate events. When he needs money he comes to Utah. And they fork it over.