'Bring On The Night'
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.
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
This is fun - a co-worker and I are educating the rest of our team on fandom jargon. (I just Googled "exclamation point fandom" because I didn't want to link to our FAQ.) So far we've been through shipping, OTP, HSQ, Vampire!Willow, slash/gen/het, woobie...I'm running low on terms I can just pull out of my head. Any big ones we're missing?
Adorable and very persistent dachsund: [link]
fanon, AU, High School AU, Always-an-X-AU, genderswap, mpreg, A/B/O (if you feel up to explaining it), OT3, apocafic, fix-it-fic, WNGWJLEO (which you don't see much anymore, I admit), ATG, dub-con...
fanon, AU, High School AU, Always-an-X-AU, genderswap, mpreg, A/B/O (if you feel up to explaining it), OT3, apocafic, fix-it-fic, WNGWJLEO (which you don't see much anymore, I admit), ATG, dub-con...
Perfect, thanks. Except I think the only people paying attention to the conversation anymore are me and the other fannish co-worker. Maybe we scared everyone off by telling them about rule 34?
(My other problem, of course, is distinguishing between fan jargon and Buffista jargon. I frequently can't remember which is which, and since I bitch about work here I want to keep the two separate...)