in other workplace amusement
So along with the annual review, they decided to do a "360 feedback." This is when your co-workers, "customers," and so forth are polled for opinions on your performance. Not that bad an idea - in theory.
However...this company is waaaaaay too small to support such a procedure. As proven by the fact that I can look at the anonymous comments and identify the commenter for nearly every one...often along the lines of, "jeez, is she still beating her gums over THAT???!?!? It was over a year ago!!"
But anyway... I was amused to read all of these in one sig.file in a post on the MiddleBridge. Just too appropriate at the moment, both for my work attitude and for some of the topics currently on that list.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- - Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between pirate captains of old and modern-day corporate bosses is that pirates had ethics.
- --Unknown
"Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!"
- --George Carlin
"When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do. And if the implications of that bother you, the time to do something about it is before you decide to send him out."
- --David Drake
However...this company is waaaaaay too small to support such a procedure. As proven by the fact that I can look at the anonymous comments and identify the commenter for nearly every one...often along the lines of, "jeez, is she still beating her gums over THAT???!?!? It was over a year ago!!"
But anyway... I was amused to read all of these in one sig.file in a post on the MiddleBridge. Just too appropriate at the moment, both for my work attitude and for some of the topics currently on that list.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- - Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between pirate captains of old and modern-day corporate bosses is that pirates had ethics.
- --Unknown
"Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!"
- --George Carlin
"When you send a man out with a gun, you create a policymaker. When his ass is on the line, he will do whatever he needs to do. And if the implications of that bother you, the time to do something about it is before you decide to send him out."
- --David Drake