like exactly the same thing. enrolled in a class and forget about it. i have it at least a couple times a month.
― bell_labs, Friday, 30 May 2008 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to have it in college all the time (that dream, that is)
funny thing is, IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME IN REAL LIFE!!!!!!!!!
i took a fucking ADOLESCENT LITERATURE class in college, within the first two weeks the prof broke her back and the class was cancelled until further notice. I NEVER GOT THE NOTICE, and one day a classmate from my greek mythology class poked me in the back and asked if i studied for our adolescent lit final AND I WAS LIKE ZOOOOOMMMMGG WTF WTF
i flunked of course
sad that the only class i flunked in college was ADOLESCENT LIT.
― homosexual II, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
superfudge.
― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i also get those fucking dreams and I haven't been in school for almost a decade.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I like a good combo forgot-the-final and at-school-naked dream. the trick is to stick to your desk.
― sexyDancer, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh I have to conduct four performance reviews next week. My own is in there somewhere too, UGH UGH UGHGUHG U GHG UG HUGH.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 30 May 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never had one in this company, yet I'm trying to plan one for a direct report this afternoon. nfi what I'm doing.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
:/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
i'm gonna be doing these for other people soon god help them
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
Have this tomorrow. Was just forwarded draft appraisal. Hate this fucking job. I need to start looking for something else but the idea of going through all that again is awful. :/ Also I'm sick and feel awful but had to come in because I got yelled at last week for calling out sick. Fuuuuuck.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
"It's sort of an unwritten rule that people don't really use their sick time. Most employees have tons saved up."
. . .
BUT WHAT IF I'M FUCKING SICK?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/180-trillion-leisure-hours-lost-to-work-last-year,1282/
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
employment, and this can't be stated enough, is evil.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, March 5, 2012 9:17 AM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sue
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm essentially a specialized secretary and I resent the hell out of it. I dind't go back to school for my masters degree and put myself in a significant amount of debt to do this shit which is why I don't "give it my all" and perform to the "best of my capability". You think I don't know that? I fucking monkey could do `1/2 the things I do. p'oiqehtj pq39etu -[39t0u[t
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, March 5, 2012 9:19 AM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The next time someone says something to that effect I'm asking for it in writing tbh.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
yep, thats v uncool of them
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
its really not such a horrible experience looking for a new job while you already have a job
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ always tell people this, it's a lot easier too cos u don't feel the same pressure
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
yah and prospective employers will think higher of you cause you have a job
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 March 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
x-posts
Yeah, I know. I just hate the whole business. At least it's not a situation where I HAVE to get something ASAP and need to take the first things which comes my way (how I ended up here btw). I need to approach it with more positivity but this morning I get to be angry because I hate them and also because sick.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 5 March 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
I always hated these when I was a tech writer, but I never feared them. I was on good terms with my supervisor and we communicated often and in depth about what I was accomplishing, so the annual review just seemed like a weird dance we had to do to justify any raise I might get.
― Aimless, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
"New objectives"? How about I just keep doing what I'm doing until technology necessitates a change, or you lay me off because I'm making too much? And thus my supervisor doesn't have to figure out new ways to reinvent the wheel?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
HATE HATE HATE performance reviews.
Mine is this afternoon; wish me luck.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
good luck!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Good luck!
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Postponed to Monday afternoon. BLAH.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
That's just cruel.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
I have an annual meeting with the management but it's not very detailed -- two years they've basically given no feedback, and one year they were like "we heard from someone about a time when you failed to make it clear that you were busy with other projects and then you didn't have as much time to devote to their project as was needed" -- just about that vague, and I was thinking "I literally have no idea what the fuck you are talking about but ok"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
you gotta fight ambiguity with ambiguity
one good response to "we heard from someone about a time when you failed to make it clear that you were busy with other projects and then you didn't have as much time to devote to their project as was needed" is "i will explore opportunities to identify the times when i failed to clear enough time for a project and take action as appropriate"
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
"I am already implementing solutions"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
always already implementing solutions
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
This opacity sounds great. In Sales someone just looks at a spreadsheet and tells you if you can come back next year.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
honestly have no idea how these work with this new company
all i know so far is ~we have an annual performance review~ and the rest it is a mystery
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Just finished my last one--the next, five years from now, would be in my retirement year, and I think they give you a pass inside of two years. ("This guy's incompetent...we just noticed now!")
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Just finished my annual review (without my getting medieval on my TL's or PM's ass \o/)! I still hate the concept and process, but hey.
Also, the PM hinted that she regards me as Team Lead material. LOL no. I do not see myself as the stuff of which management is made.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
FUCK this
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
due by 5pm on the first day after a holiday break
At least our corporate overlords do not insist on Maoist self-criticism 'struggle' sessions.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
these can be p stupid but i would make what u want out of it; it's just a generic form to prompt your thoughts. i never stick to the exact structure. also always a good opportunity to talk about what you did right!
― surm, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Hate that shit so much. This will be the third year in a row where my superiors will passively mention certain unfulfilled work goals that I've passively assented to year after year and never fulfilled and never had any intention of fulfilling because they have no intention of paying me to fulfill goals above and beyond my day-to-day responsibilities so...yeah. Fuck that.
― DJ Untz Hall (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
just bc they're you're supervisors doesn't mean they are your superiors! big difference. we're all just people here, i don't really care what your title is tbh.
― surm, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
i think the biggest pain about these is just the bureaucratic paperwork and having to summarize the work ive done in dumb HR terms
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
xpost Yeah, I don't really sweat that because no one's the boss of me.</gen-x>
― DJ Untz Hall (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link