I hate those stupid company initiatives that so many large companies want us to embrace - my company's for 2015 is "Heart, Harmony, Hunger". I don't even know WTF that means!
LOL I can understand the heart and harmony ones, but hunger? I think someone in your HR department was already focused on Thanksgiving, which was last month for you guys, right?
Ah well, at least the silly performance thing's over for another year.
Dear god those "core company beliefs" are soul killing. Do people actually think they mean anything? It seems like language from "Dilbert" cartoons. I can see why you're a curmudgeon!
Do people think they mean anything? LOL Being a newbie at this company, I can't say for sure, but I decided to interpret them as a particularly evil writing challenge, and rolled with it from there.
I worked in academia for 15 years (at the University of Illinois). While I'm not 100% apprized of what you did previously (or what you do now, for that matter ;D), I know the _type_. All too well.
I was never so happy to leave a job. I loved my students, I loved several of the people I worked with (the down to Earth folks), but there were so many people so caught up in their own ego... it was painful most days. And almost personally disastrous for me (that's probably TMI, but also true). It sounds like you're in such a better positions now! I say all this, because... I think sometimes we have to go through all that hard stuff to get to where we're most happy. =D
I hope that's the case for you! And it sounds like you have SUCH a wonderful family (and people surrounding you) to help make that happen! =D
Two other employees left my old company around the same time I did (One person about two months prior to my leaving, and another a month after I left.) I still keep in touch with both of them, and we've all said how enjoyable it has been to "finally" be free. Melodrama aside, I think it's interesting that all three of us feel the same, and agree we're in a better place now.
Did you teach at Northern Illinois University? I've been there a few times for my old job, and they have an excellent certification program for people becoming teachers of the visually impaired.
Thanks for reading my snarky answer to the prompt. *grin*
I feel like I introduce myself a lot to people I've already met, lol! Happens a bunch with my husband's coworkers, because months go by in between when I see them, so I often forget who I've met and who I haven't. Latest tactic is to just act like I'm old friends with everyone, haha! Which has kinda been working out!
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Ah well, at least the silly performance thing's over for another year.
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Thanks for reading.
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THIS!! =D
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I worked in academia for 15 years (at the University of Illinois). While I'm not 100% apprized of what you did previously (or what you do now, for that matter ;D), I know the _type_. All too well.
I was never so happy to leave a job. I loved my students, I loved several of the people I worked with (the down to Earth folks), but there were so many people so caught up in their own ego... it was painful most days. And almost personally disastrous for me (that's probably TMI, but also true). It sounds like you're in such a better positions now! I say all this, because... I think sometimes we have to go through all that hard stuff to get to where we're most happy. =D
I hope that's the case for you! And it sounds like you have SUCH a wonderful family (and people surrounding you) to help make that happen! =D
- (new friend) Jen
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Did you teach at Northern Illinois University? I've been there a few times for my old job, and they have an excellent certification program for people becoming teachers of the visually impaired.
Thanks for reading my snarky answer to the prompt. *grin*
Dan
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Thanks for reading!
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