win!

[ovrclokd]

our company does an annual "focal review" process. affectionately (or not) known, around here, as the "fecal review."

as usual, i put my self-assessment off until the absolute last minute. last year that tactic worked so well that i never got around to doing it at all, and my then-manager - who also thinks this process is crap - just made shit up for me. this year, my manager - who i love dearly, but has a much more process-oriented approach to things - emailed me this morning to remind me that today is the deadline. (technically, the deadline was last friday, but none of us got it done by then, so now the deadline is today, really, he means it.)

so, i:

• pulled up my email archive and reviewed the list of accounts i worked on all year,
• reviewed the sample self-assessments on our internal HR website,
• launched the little howto video presentation and let it play in the background,
• and spent about half an hour pounding out
  • a self-aggrandizing hit parade of all the cool shit i've done this year,
  • with dollar figures attached where i knew them,
  • and with some obligatory needs-improvement boilerplate ("and next year i intend to tackle even more cool stuff, so i need to optimize for efficiency and continue to refine my prioritization process") at the end.

i sent it off to $manager about an hour ago, fully expecting to be told that i needed to rewrite it with less bloviating. instead, he called about 10 minutes ago and told me it was perfect on the first try! if i can't opt out of their stupid reindeer game, then i damn well can beat them at it. :) altho it does make me feel a bit like i need a shower...