Fantastic, Anne!
Hah, ita!
People did not eat enough cupcake. EAT people. I'm ready to start roaming the halls giving away cupcakes.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SuziQ - Dec 11, 2014 10:30:14 am PST #12335 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
meara - Dec 11, 2014 10:32:10 am PST #12336 of 30000
Congrats Anne!!
I made it in and out of the cupcake store to buy a present for my sister without eating a cupcake--even though they were giving aeay a free one with purchase. ...I am so not cut out for dieting, I've only been doing it a week and a half and I feel like it's been forever.
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2014 10:40:17 am PST #12337 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yay, Anne!
Jesse - Dec 11, 2014 10:52:11 am PST #12338 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay Anne!
I told one of my reports she is getting a raise, and she almost passed out. The two events were unconnected, so yikes! I hope she has actually gone home.
SuziQ - Dec 11, 2014 10:59:45 am PST #12339 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
While I have gotten a little better than industry stardard raises in the past, this year...I'm glad to have a job and any bump is going to be a surprise.
I didn't have as stellar a year this year, not that I did bad or caused problems. But we are graded by "Meets expectations", "Exceeds Expectations", and "Does not meet expectations". If you work you heart out every year - how do you ever get Exceeds. That is everyone's expectation of you.
But it is more about the "voluntary" retirements, the layoffs, the mandatory PTO, and the (early rumors) of a furlough program that make me think that anything we get will be lucky.
I'm about ready to leave the office. Headache settling in from the HVAC. And my boss wasn't even here today.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 11, 2014 10:59:56 am PST #12340 of 30000
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
I've been reading some personal accounts of horrors soldiers have encountered during their service, and it makes me chuckle to think how Gomer Pyle-ish my dad's adventures overseas in the Army were. Instead of daring night missions and grenades I get tales of drunken antics in biergartens and The Limburger Cheese Sandwich Left Forgotten in the Room.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2014 11:06:02 am PST #12341 of 30000
brillig
My father was stationed in New York City during WWII. The only stories he told were working on plans in New York and Canada, and he had a box full of swizzle sticks from several different bars. Unfortunately, that box disappeared. He died my senior year in college, before I got my brain organized enough to realize he probably had terrific stories about being stateside during the war. Though they probably would not have been the stories you tell your youngest daughter.
Zenkitty - Dec 11, 2014 11:08:25 am PST #12342 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
we are graded by "Meets expectations", "Exceeds Expectations", and "Does not meet expectations". If you work you heart out every year - how do you ever get Exceeds. That is everyone's expectation of you.
This is the problem in my workplace. We're graded by Satisfactory (or not), Superior, and Outstanding. The bar has been raised to the point that you practically have to donate a kidney to get Outstanding. Satisfactory is what you get by just doing your job, which is - needless to say - no longer satisfactory; they expect everyone to go above and beyond. "Stretch goals" are built into the review process and if you don't meet them, you can expect not to get a very Superior raise.
My theory is, they're not planning to give anyone in my department much of a raise, ever, except the few people who haven't been here long. The rest of us old-timers are bumping our heads on the ceiling of our salary bands with a long time to retirement and nowhere in the company to promote out to. So since we're not allowed to make too much more money, they have to have reasons to not give us much more money.
zuisa - Dec 11, 2014 11:14:34 am PST #12343 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
My company's evaluation system needs serious overhauling as well. The labels and their corresponding scores don't match up, and most managers don't actually read the definitions. For example, if you are given a "needs improvement" on something, the system defines that as "cannot be relied upon to do _____". But then managers throw that out there and go "yeah, you could do better". At my last evaluation I kept trying to drive home the point that, sure, everyone can always improve at something, but that is not the same as being completely unreliable.
Super frustrating, so I sympathize with you!
Toddson - Dec 11, 2014 11:22:53 am PST #12344 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My father was a flight instructor with the Air Force during WWII. He was stationed in Florida; three-day passes were often for trips to Havana ... when Havana was a major fun place to visit.
In re work - I'm no longer working for someone who hates me so I may actually get a raise in January. Here's hoping!