'Out Of Gas'
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.
I hate self-evaluations, I hate goals and goal-setting, I hate corporate reviews, I despise the whole goddam made-up arbitrary pointless process so much.
Yeah, I'm not a fan either. It's like, I want to contribute and make the product better and cooler, we're on the same page here. Isn't that enough?
No snow here yet.
My plan if they get really stir-crazy is to drop them off at the superintendent's house for the afternoon. I'm sure someone on the local mom's FB group knows where he lives.
Ha!
Nooooooo. A meeting that has taken like 6 weeks to schedule just got cancelled because of the weather. It's tomorrow afternoon! Couldn't we have waited to see what it looks like tomorrow??
Well, I live close to the office, just off a major bus route, so I hauled myself into the office to take care of my weekly e-newsletter (which has become the bane of my existence), but I'm not staying long. The snow is coming down heavily, it's sticking, and it's slick. Luckily, I brought the grippers to go on my boots, so I can walk safely (except on the surfaces that have been cleared, of course).
It's like, I want to contribute and make the product better and cooler, we're on the same page here. Isn't that enough?
Right?
I understand the value of goal-setting and giving/getting feedback, but I have never worked anywhere where my responsibilities, expectations, and goals were set clearly enough for my annual review to make any sense. Just about every self-appraisal I've ever written starts out with some variation on "the goals set at the beginning of the year are all irrelevant now so I'm making this up completely as I go along."
All 3 meetings cancelled, Y is staying closed for the day.
I don't want to jinx myself, but we haven't had employee evaluations since our highly-organized micromanaging president retired and our new president got the job. I think he's of the same mind as me about the evaluation process and highly granular billing recordkeeping being counterproductive when the company is small enough that the people in charge can see directly how workers are doing at their jobs.
Hope that is true, Matt!