performance review at work

[derien]

I had my yearly performance review day before yesterday. Glowing would be the word, I think. The Supervisor who reviewed me is encouraging me to become a trainer or lead, and then asked if there were any other goals I'd like to set. I said no, that was fine by me. I actually did start getting a little excited about it while I was talking with her, but now I think sanity has returned. I don't think I want the garbage that goes with that. Casper the Ghostman directed my attention to an article, today, on how one gets ahead faster in your job if you don't care about your co-workers or your quality of work. I can't find it right now, but the basic gist was if you're concentrating on your work and your co-workers you forget to brownnose your superiors enough. I quite offendedly proclaimed to him that this society is completely backward.

While I was searching for the article which Ghostman pointed out I found this article on CNN about receivers of the Ig Nobel Prize. I was interested by the following...

The medicine prize went to Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University, for their 1992 report, "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide." The research of 49 metropolitan areas concluded "that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate."

Now that's useful research, I think. Now that we know that we can bring the suicide rate down by funding efforts to stamp out country music.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Go you! Of course you should get glowing reviews!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I am one of those people who always suspects people are just being nice when they say nice thing. This is partly because, sometimes, I think I'm doing fine and I get lousy reviews. This has, until recently, made me doubt my own perception of reality. Lately, though, I've come to realize that very often, in the work world, how someone else perceives my ability has a lot more to do with how much they like me than my actual ability. Hence the mention of the article about getting ahead by brownnosing talking to superiors, even while not actually attending to one's work. Before he found that article Ghostman had already figured out everything that it said, on his own, although how he usually stated it was that he had formed a theory that people were promoted based partly on the shinyness of their shoes.