Annual Performance Review

My boss rated me higher than I did and said many wonderful things.

Now I can relax.

And I get MORE SQL training!

This month will be my first real annual review for this job, since last year we were so understaffed and overworked there was no time for one. I hope it turns out okay -- I expect it will because I've had nothing but positive feedback, but I always worry something will go horribly wrong.

ugh

what do i say? i applied for a promotion, didn't get it, and was told i would never be promoted without an mba, which i will never get, so i am just still here because it is easy but completely uninspired. i can't even bring myself to write some bullshit.

ugh

copy and paste what you said last year

i can't because it's a DIFFERENT FORM this year for some stupid reason

i said some shit

My biggest disappointment of FY08 was not being qualified to be promoted. While I enjoy my position, my coworkers, and the many benefits of working at *******, it worries me that my career is stalled at this point. I understand that much of the problem is that I lack an advanced degree/MBA, which seems necessary if I am to continue in this field. I have no current plans to attend school or leave my position in the next year, but it is something that I must consider 2-3 years out, if there is no room for advancement within *******. If there were a chance for my position to be expanded into more of a ******** role, for example, I would feel more positive about my direction.

meh

Are they one of those companies that will help employees get MBAs and suchlike?

no. it's a nfp and they do some tuition reimbursement, but MBAs are not covered. and the thought of getting an mba makes me feel icky.

Then I think they've got a lot of chutzpah asking ppl already in their organization to get one to move up. It's only the most expensive postgrad to do, but I am sure it would not be an idea to flag up catch-22 hypocrisy on their part.

it was a dick move on their part, mainly because the person occupying the position before didn't have an mba, and had been in my position before (she was only a few years older than me). but they ended up bringing in someone much more senior, from a corporate background (who got her mba the year i was born).

i would never be promoted without an mba, which i will never get

Why not?

there's nothing wrong with getting an MBA - I am going to start pursuing one in the next year. I'm getting to that mid-level stall where it seems I can't jump up another level without it.

Too bad your work is being so shitty about it, tho :(

sorry though bells but i have also never understood people who work for non profits and then bitch about not getting paid enough/promoted/etc.

if they would pay for me to get an executive mba, i'd do it! but i can't imagine dropping out of life for two years and going into a ton of debt to go to a traditional mba program. especially since i'm not even that interested in it and think the schoolwork would be mind-numbing.

i don't know, usually the low pay and waiting for someone else to leave or die to be promoted is offset by being pretty much guaranteed a promotion if someone does leave...so it's disheartening that there is no way to move up.

OK then you should explore some other work options, but on the quiet. You may be able to find an NGO or similar with better retention policies.

This is one non-profit with money to burn for gala events etc etc so protestations are bullshit.

Sorry, that was to Mandee really.

That was like my first job in NYC, but really junior admin stuff. Development people got paid hella money to plan chichi lunches with Page Six types, only to return to office and spend all afternoon having bulimia episodes.

Guy at my last work did his MBA after hours, mostly remote. Some ivy league school too, tho I can't recall the name.

I think my wife should get an MBA, since she's hit the same kinda ceiling. She's too lazy to do it, I think (so am I, in fairness).

i feel like if i am going to go back to school, i should do something i am excited about. i probably need to just figure out another career.

Maybe you should look at the reading lists for a few courses to see if you'd be bored senseless.

I have a recurring dream about returning to school -- probably sourced in my dropping out of the PhD program ABD -- and in these dreams, I always forget that I'm enrolled in a class until it's time for finals, and then I'm in a lol hueg panic. In a way, I kinda think that's what'd really happen if I went back to study something.

i constantly have those dreams too!

like exactly the same thing. enrolled in a class and forget about it. i have it at least a couple times a month.

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.

superfudge.

i also get those fucking dreams and I haven't been in school for almost a decade.

I like a good combo forgot-the-final and at-school-naked dream.
the trick is to stick to your desk.

ugh I have to conduct four performance reviews next week. My own is in there somewhere too, UGH UGH UGHGUHG U GHG UG HUGH.

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.

:/

i'm gonna be doing these for other people soon god help them

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.

"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/

employment, and this can't be stated enough, is evil.

"It's sort of an unwritten rule that people don't really use their sick time. Most employees have tons saved up."

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sue

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
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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.

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.

i think the biggest pain about these is just the bureaucratic paperwork and having to summarize the work ive done in dumb HR terms

xpost Yeah, I don't really sweat that because no one's the boss of me.</gen-x>