I love how "meeting expectations" is a bad review. "You're doing what we expect of you. We're very disappointed in you."
Yeah, the scale should be recalibrated. That's bullshit.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Steph L. - May 04, 2016 8:37:38 am PDT #20924 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesse - May 04, 2016 8:50:39 am PDT #20925 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I'm meeting expectations, which isn't good, and apparently I have some interesting and potentially upsetting feedback to read. I think I'll wait to read it until Friday when I'm working from home. I'm too demoralized to make myself do it right now.
Oh lord. Yeah, save that until you have a drink and/or a snack and/or something to distract you.
I can actually name an honest to goodness moderate Republican: Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Yes! Good one. And I guess my governor, Charlie Baker, is actually a moderate? He is definitely a Republican.
shrift - May 04, 2016 8:58:32 am PDT #20926 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
As I recall in my brief time as a not-actually-a-Google-employee, you can do a good job and still get what sounds like a pretty bad review.
You're not wrong.
I have to increase my visibility and sell the things I'm working on when I would rather just do the work. Ugh. Maybe I'll distract myself by writing more code.
Gudanov - May 04, 2016 9:06:08 am PDT #20927 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
My manager spent about half my review just explaining how Google performance reviews weren't a bell curve like Motorola's were. Still it was pretty demoralizing to be told you're doing a perfectly good job, but then get these low numbers.
SuziQ - May 04, 2016 9:06:56 am PDT #20928 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
CJ has found a car so we are in the dealership and all that crap. Vonn Miller is here filming a commercial. I'm not a big football fan...but I do know he was the Super Bowl MVP and was on Dancing with the Stars.
Dana - May 04, 2016 9:18:19 am PDT #20929 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
UGH performance reviews. They are the worst.
It is why I have Garfield fun facts in my head!
And I thought for a second you meant the cat.
-t - May 04, 2016 9:43:30 am PDT #20930 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, ugh, shrift, I hate upping visibility. Doing the work should be enough.
And I thought for a second you meant the cat.
A) Hates Mondays 2) Loves lasagna iii) Was nominated as a Dark Horse
Dammit, I keep not having time to call the person with the cat! She left me a message on my work phone after I left yesterday and I thought 7 am was probably too early to call and then I forgot until I was in a meeting and now I'm off toget my hair cut. Maybe I can reachher on the way.
Calli - May 04, 2016 9:45:53 am PDT #20931 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have to increase my visibility and sell the things I'm working on when I would rather just do the work. Ugh. Maybe I'll distract myself by writing more code.
That sucks. It seems like sales and code writing should be different positions.
msbelle - May 04, 2016 9:55:16 am PDT #20932 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Thoughts on running mates at this point?
I read Newt somewhere.
shrift - May 04, 2016 9:57:17 am PDT #20933 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It's 'selling' in the form of self-promotion and visibility with upper management.