Wash ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Paycheck, Consuela, it's a paycheck. I know that doesn't help much.
I adore my maintenance guy. I lost my garage remote and can only find one I had before they replaced the opener, so it is a mismatch brand-wise. He said he would take care of getting me the right one anyway. Also found out that the apartment I'm going into is being renovated right now and he is happy to take me over there anytime if I want to check it out before it is done. Gonna have to bake some cookies for him soon.
Very nice, Suzi!
My self-eval is due tomorrow and I don't know when I'm going to be able to get it done. Way more stressy than my actual job!
I've had my self-eval open in a background tab for close to a week now. At this point I will probably just wind up submitting a post-it note that says "I am too awesomely busy to do this kind of corporate bullshit. Please give me my bonus now."
300% of target? Go Brenda! I heard from my boss yesterday about raises and bonuses--my raise was less than 2%, but the bonus (which I didn't expect because the company didn't have a great year) was around 3%. I'm not sure where those are vs other people, though she mentioned she tried to make sure bonuses were decent for people who are working hard like she knows I do. So hey, free money.
Free money is always good, especially when it recognizes your hard work.
Our comp is structured so that for most people about 10% of your comp is discretionary bonus rather than salary. Which can be both good and bad, of course. It takes strong performance to get to 100%, and I've had DRs get nothing in the past when they weren't living up to expectations. And of course it's partially driven by how well the business did overall.
At this point I will probably just wind up submitting a post-it note that says "I am too awesomely busy to do this kind of corporate bullshit. Please give me my bonus now."
I wish I had the balls to actually do that, it would be accurate. Not in my very first haven't-even-been-here-a-full-year annual review, though.
I am told by my co-workers that my about-to-be-ex-manager is the only one who does self-evals, so maybe I won't have to do this next year...
I think I may need to do some celebrating.
I think you should do 300% celebrating.
Consuela, I do not understand your ex(temp)boss at all, unless he is a giant idiot.
I think the meds are sufficiently worn off now. I used them well... went and read a review of a short story written by the Dorothy Parker of SF reviewing, figuring it would be less painful. And it was!
unless he is a giant idiot
SIGH. I can sympathize a bit, because it's a small firm and I'm fairly senior, so they have to be sure they'll have enough work. But the guy who drives most of the hiring is in Boulder, not SF, and doesn't seem to think they need me.
I'll survive, but it's a bit lowering. It's been a rough year or so, and it would be really nice to have someone be really excited to have me on board. But other than this contracting firm, I haven't even had a real interview since before Thanksgiving.
Knitters! You can make little penguin sweaters to help little penguins omg. link