{"id":13447,"date":"2008-12-10T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/10\/whew-they-havent-found-me-out-yet.html"},"modified":"2008-12-10T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:41:11","slug":"whew_they_havent_found_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/whew_they_havent_found_me.html","title":{"rendered":"Whew! They haven’t found me out yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had my annual review from the Boss Man today. It’s an annual agony — I’m always sure (based on regular feedback) that it will go well, but I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this case — well, it went pretty well. My overall score went u a tick, I got some nice kudos (expected and un-), was called a “consummate team player,” “exceptionally dependable,” and lots other places where “excellent” was used. Safety, listening skills, initiative, contributions, and objectivity were all areas highlighted as very good things.<\/p>\n

The Boss Man is good about giving credit where due, but he’s not effusive about it, so it’s not like he was simply saying nice things because that’s the thing to do.<\/p>\n

Lest this seem like a huge self-back-patting, I also had several “areas for improvement” pointed out (and one area I’d fallen back in), none of which was a surprise (or something I disagreed with), though none of them are matters I look forward to working on, either. <\/p>\n

The most amusing point was where the Boss Man said I had greatly improved in coming up with better summary information in my emails to him — which, I fear, will be a life-long struggle for me to maintain, being the wordy sort.<\/p>\n

So that’s one massive hurdle for the week down. Only a dozen or more so to go. But I feel a bit springier in the step for the praise received (cue vigorous wagging of the tail).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had my annual review from the Boss Man today. It’s an annual agony — I’m always sure (based on regular feedback) that it will go well, but I’m always waiting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5068,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/07\/day_late_but_no.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":0},"title":"Day late but no dollars short","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Nov-03 7:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Got my annual review. Well, actually, haven't gotten the review, but got the raise notice. A month late, to be sure, but my New New Boss had to wait on...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51835,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/doing-away-with-the-annual-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":1},"title":"Doing away with the annual review","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-Jul-15 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"I would be whole-heartedly behind this, if an accountable structure is set up to encourage timely, standard, understandable feedback (in both directions). For too many people, though, \"no annual performance review\" is likely to translate into \"I have no idea what my boss thinks of my work, even once a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/dinner_with_the_boss_man.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":2},"title":"Dinner with the Boss Man","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Jun-08 6:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Big IT-related conference today here in the office, and my boss flew in yesterday evening, so it seemed like a nice opportunity for a nice dinner. The original plan was...","rel":"","context":"In "Restaurants"","block_context":{"text":"Restaurants","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink\/food-drink-restaurants"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13204,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/why_they_pay_me_the_big_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":3},"title":"Why they pay me the big bucks","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jun-08 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have to throw yourself on a grenade, it's always nice when your boss complements you on how nicely\u00a0you did so....","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2545,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/contentment.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":4},"title":"Contentment","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Jun-02 9:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"I hate doing employee reviews. The knowledge that an annual review for one of my staff is coming sits on my shoulder like a vulture, picking at my flesh while...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/todays_business_lesson_ba.html","url_meta":{"origin":13447,"position":5},"title":"Today’s Business Lesson: Back Pocket Numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Aug-08 1:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If your boss asks you to give back some summary numbers (\"how many applications do we support?\" \"how many projects are we going to have next year?\" \"how many people...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}