So about ezzactly one year ago, I started a thread asking for adviceabout phrasing my non-existent “goals” into acceptable corporate-speak. Well, boys’n’girls, it’s time once again for the fun that is tah-daaaah the annual Corporate Performance Review. Yay.
I have an occasional problem with timeliness - something that, frankly, has been a bug on purplehorseshoe v 1.0 since the beginning - but I don’t let it interfere with my actual work because I always stay late to make up the time. (And then some, but that’s a different story. God, I hope this year brings one more pair of hands to our team.) Other than that, though, I got nuthin.’ I want to work a fair number of hours in return for a fair paycheck, as I have been doing so far. What else is there, at a job like this?
Anyone who wants to give advice or suggestions, I would be more than happy to read them. I can say that to build on last year, the goals ARE the focus. What kinds of crap do y’all out there in CorporateLand say during things like this?
Big boss wants me to write my own performance review. I’ve been there three weeks. I haven’t even begun to learn half the stuff he wants me to write about. I told him I need more to do… but writing about stuff I haven’t learned yet wasn’t quite what I had in mind.
Shit, that was easy. Silver lining to last year’s extra projects being dumped in our laps right when we lost a team member and were short-handed and working extra hours out the holy wazoo? No time at ALL for crap like “goals” and such. Plus, my manager went over my performance review from last year and a couple of minor points I had completely forgotten about have actually been addressed, so we were both relieved that there was actually something to write down on it.
Whee! Celebratory cuppa Earl Grey and a toaster streudel for me!
Hope things go as smoothly for you, Dr. G. Try not to highlight your Big Boss’s shortcomings too much - subtlety is key.
Dear customer: we delivered the goods for your project over two years ago. WHY IN THE FUCK HAVE YOU WAITED THIS LONG TO INSTALL IT?!? I hope you realize that every single issue we’re having now could have been avoided if you had bothered to review this shit when we initially sent it to you…seriously, did anyone at your og-forsaken plant even look at the bill of materials? And judging by your lack of screaming, I think it’s safe to assume that the project manager failed to give you the cost estimate for replacing those reports.
By the way, project manager: when I send you a list of comments for the customer, I expect you to deliver it. Instead, I found out the day the drawing revisions were due that you had failed to contact anyone at the plant regarding the clarifications I requested. Incorporating the resulting changes took another day. Way to go jackass, now we’re behind schedule.
We’ve had all sorts of updating and construction here in the office. Thankfully, I was working off-site for most of it and so missed the drywall, paint, etc.
However, they are still fixing the new heating system (the old one wouldn’t work with the new walls they put up). Every room, EXCEPT OURS, has heat. While there wasn’t air blowing through the vents I could deal with it, but now they’re testing the ducts, and they work. With air conditioning. And the cold room is even colder, and we can’t adjust the thermostat until they’re done testing.
Me too. My problem is, I’m waiting for other people to get some of their other things done so they can do the things I need done so I can finish my project.
Must resist … urge … to register as “Shreddin’ Guy” (and give “my” colorful perspective on how I’m getting screwed at work and treated unfairly at casinos, and how I plan to make a pact with the rats to get revenge).
Where is the goddamned workplace rants thread?!?! Oh, here it is.
Dear Administration.
FUCK. YOU.
This is the second time you’ve made a change in a student situation without getting the facts from me, and without notifying me. The first was bullshit, but relatively minor, and chickenshit to boot.
But this? Changing a student’s grade after the semester is over, without contacting me or discussing the situation with me? Based on the student’s complaints about me being too “hard” of a teacher? The same student who couldn’t be bothered to read the deadlines or syllabus, which I would have confirmed had you contacted me?
FUCK. YOU.
Fuck you sideways with a herpes-infested dildo wrapped in rusty razor wire. Using lube made of equal parts vinegar, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and vaseline.
I hope that you eventually encounter this student yourself at a time when her snowflake-itude hurts you the most. And you probably will, given that she’s enrolling in our NURSING PROGRAM. Last time I checked, a lot of aspects of health care don’t get a do-over, or a fixed grade.
She’ll probably drop out of nursing. A lot of snowflakes do when they find out you actually have to do dirty work instead of just mopping sick people’s fevered brows.
Not half as bad, but I just found out that a student (I’d told her she could not be in my class, due to it being full for weeks) got admitted into my class by the Dean “just to get her and her drama out of [his] office”.
So now I get a semester’s worth of drama, AND I get to resent it, too…
I have no doubt you are correct. Friend of mine went through a nursing program (successfully, I might add) and her stories of what a typical day is like were … equal parts horrifying, fascinating, and disgusting. Two out of those three tend to melt snowflakes.
kolga and digs, your administrators suck really, really badly. Way to continue teaching the snowflakes that having temper tantrums will get them their own way!
And if she does make it through nursing school (while remaining a snowflake), remember the expression “Nurses eat their young”. Snowflakes melt fast in the presence of a pissed off nurse.
Poor SG is so abused by HR that HR sent out a mass email announcing SG’s retirement party. We are encouraged to bring extra food because he’s po and will want to take the leftovers home. Boss lady forwarded the email to me (not working now) and I jumped out of my chair to do a fist pump, then screamed in pain and fell back in my chair while with my fist still in the air.
I intend to go to the thrift store and buy a lot of forks. I’m going to wash them after the party and put them in a bag for SG to take.
SG has been in HR and they are very closed mouth about why this is happening, but I’ve heard through the gossip mill that SG is going to move his camp trailor to Sedona so he can triple dip.
That is…if he can afford to fix his truck. According to the email, SG would rather have food and money than gifts and cards. The fuel pump went out on his truck and it is going to cost him almost $500 to have it fixed.
He’s got Social Security paying him, he has county retirement, he has retirement from a gas company and he’s still too po to have his fuel pump fixed.
My boss told me that if the Sedona people called me for a reference, I have to say many good things about him so that they will hire him and we will be rid of him.
I’m back on sick leave, bosslady will have to deal with this.
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