June 2012
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Review review
I just did a search for each of the Seven Dirty Words in my performance review.
We’re clear. This is a go.
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A Funny Thing Happened on my last review
baffledinbrooklyn replied to your post: That Guy
But did he “do shit that fucking did shit?”
That reminds me a fucking horrible and completely devastating funny story.
I was working on last year’s year-end performance review. My performance evaluation system logs you out after 15 minutes, or after 5 minutes of inactivity. This is annoying as hell, so I wrote all my goal notes in...
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gingeredjess replied to your post: That Guy
Whoa, I’m surprised an employee that that sort of description still has a job!
Yeaaaah…. about that…
This person’s performance has been in decline, and it has to be documented. I’m kinda fuzzy on this person’s employment longevity. I feel kinda bad about it, but then I think about all the shit they put me and my...
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That Guy
I have just used the following words/phrases when describing someone’s performance:
Blunt
Combative
Bullying
Aggressive
Confrontational
Difficult to work with
Verbally abusive
Resistant to change
As you can tell, this is going swimmingly.
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kiwafruit replied to your post: I hate doing performance reviews
Reviewing you or someone else? They’re only useless if nothing ever gets done with what happens out of them. Otherwise they’re a great opportunity to acknowledge for those that like recognition and provide challenge for those that seek improvement…
Both, actually. It’s our mid-year review time. I’m actually ahead of...
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becomingbrina replied to your post: I hate doing performance reviews
good luck! i’m with you - i hate writing negative comments. i don’t understand my husband; he gets so frustrated when he doesn’t receive any points for improving his performance in reviews. he thrives on knowing how he can do better.
I’m actually somewhat in the same boat as your husband. When it’s time for my...
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Am listening to Thom Yorke's The Eraser on loop
Not sure what good can come of this, but I’m going to be in an awesome mood.
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Please Define 'Stop'
I just told my IT team to stop deployment work for a huge project based on issues we encountered.
I then spent 45 minutes defining what I meant by ‘stop’.
My head hurts.
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I hate doing performance reviews
Guess what I’m doing today?
I feel like an idiot writing these things. I don’t want to say anything bad, and I never know how much / little to write.
I’d rather write a presentation to a stack of VP’s.
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Trying to Tell Me Something
My VPN client just terminated connection. It does that after 12 hours.
So… yay?
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Hello?
I’ve been on conference calls to long today, my bluetooth headset battery died.
I have another 4.5 hours to go.
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Vacation Meeting
I’m currently in a conference room that seems to have no wifi or data connections.
As much as I need to send out emails, this work network isolation is like a glorious mid-day vacation.
Hooray small things
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Fun Fact
The vending machines in my cafeteria give dollar coins as change.
The vending machines don’t accept dollar coins as payment.
I’ll just go back to my desk.
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It's 9:30am and I've already run out of time today
I’m 2.5 hours into my work day, and based on my meeting schedule and to-do list, I can tell you:
I won’t leave before 6pm
I won’t have time for lunch
I’m still going to miss deadlines
I’m not going to be able to update my goals, which I need to do for my mid-year evaluation.
What the fuck, today?
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I Work Outta tha Home
I left the foul stench of my office this morning sped home to take my day’s worth of conference calls. Everything went smoothly, which is a nice change of pace.
I’m done with my calls for the day. Now I’m just left with some data analysis, which is really just fiddling about in Excel. Lots of INDIRECT and SUMIFS work.
In about 45 minutes, I’m done for the day....
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Hell is
myturtlespeedy:
Teaching other people to use Microsoft Excel.
And yes.
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The smell has made it upstairs to the Executive...
I expect the building to be closed in 8 minutes.
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Listen... do you smell something?
My office smells like sewage.
Not the whole block.
Not the whole building.
Not even the whole floor of my building.
Just my office (well, officle), and the surrounding offices and cubicles on this side of my floor of the building. An awful, pungent, rotten eggs and post-burrito bathroom unpleasantness kind of smell. We’re told that maintenance was working on something on another...
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Clear!
Tonight, my phone locked up again. When I pulled the battery out, small sparks lept joyously from the contacts like djinn I’d set free from some ancient lamp. When I reinserted the battery and booted my phone back up, it chose to play ‘Where Is My Mind’ by The Pixies whenever I received a text message.
I wiped my phone and did a restore. I’m going to keep just the...
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On the plus side...
A VP of another department informed me and my department’s VP that she wanted to start a fanclub for me based on the work I’m doing for a big project. She later signed an email to me as “-President, MMLTD Fanclub”
Gonna take that as a ‘win’.
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sallydoodle replied to your post: Motherfucker
if only this guy were still doing this, i’d send him your direction: blogs.wsj.com/photojo…
This man is a hero. I would punch the crap out of him, in the nicest way.
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Motherfucker
That is all
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Mitigating Expections
Today as Designed: Quiet day. A couple of meetings, but only leading one of them. Write 3 status reports. Clear out emails. Update project documentation. Update SharePoint. Solve some Access Database problems. Go home at normal time. Enjoy evening of dinner with spouse, television, and some videogame time.
Today, Actual: VP arrives in office, which I completely forgot about....
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“Okay. So we get the files and run it through our data validation system. Then...”
– Overheard on one of my conference calls with my IT department today. Some of the IT staff in my company are not from the US (and some aren’t even in the US), and have names that some might feel are complicated. More complicated for some more than others, apparently.
No, I didn’t say...
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“Counter blast, interstellar facial full.
Bumper sticker on my rocket’s...”
– Van Halen, Outta Space
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Long Week
I just looked at my email inbox and my meeting schedule for this week and thought “if I take a sick day, I could really get a lot of work done without all my meetings and people calling me”.
This was (is) a serious thought.
It’s not even 8am on Monday, and I’m in trouble.
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When you're not Catholic at a Catholic wedding...
They make you hang decorations and run errands.
Important information. Have it, internet.
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In Philadelphia, It's Worth Fitty Bucks
I’m in Philadelphia this weekend with Mrs. MMLTD for a wedding. My sister-in-law’s. She’s very sweet, and so is the bridegroom. They are a well-matched couple, and we’re incredibly happy for them.
I’m also incredibly happy it isn’t *my* wedding.
Don’t get me wrong; my wedding was awesome. But it was stressful as hell, mainly because Mrs. MMLTD and I did almost...
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“Don’t see some men as 1/2 empty
See them 1/2 full of shit
Thinking that...”
– Pearl Jam, 1/2 Full
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Seems Counterproductive
My work computer has uninstalled almost every vital program I use in my work day. It left only my email client, MS Word, and MS Excel.
Then an hour later, it started reinstalling everything.
I’m not sure what my IT department is up to, but their efforts to get me out of the office has failed.
I’m about to host a Web Conference. From this computer.
Should be fun.
Good luck...
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“Soldier: Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Sings upon the birch bow...”
– The Decemberists, Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
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Security Optional
I changed my tumblr password on the website, but Tumblr App for Android seems to think my old one works just fine and dandy.
Who needs security?
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Account security
jennhoney:
baffledinbrooklyn:
womaninterrupted:
So I read this post about cookie thieves today and the loophole in tumblr account security and then got locked out of my account because of suspicious activity and had to reset my password. Unlike.
Clearly, Missing E is to blame for all this.
Strange things are afoot
I was just forced to change my password and now I’m getting those ghost...
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“When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank,
My angeldevil reveller shook me...”
– Bad Religion, Hooray for Me…
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“One night at the disco,
I wanted to dance slow.
I saw a sweet baby
Such a...”
– Weezer, King
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MSU
While writing an email, I was momentarily convinced that ‘tomorning’ was a word, and it meant ‘this morning’. It seems to be an amalgam of ‘tomorrow’ and ‘morning’, but I clearly meant today.
Gonna be a rough one today, I can feel it.
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“To me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
End is the only part of...”
– Cake, Friend is a Four Letter Word
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Now I Remember
Jonathan Coulton concerts are collections of fantastically geeky, awkward people. It is always this way. I love it.
Also, I’m drinking beer. Good start.
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Done
I have actually left the office.
My work week ended. By and large, it was successful. I’m happy with what I had been able to accomplish this week, but I’m tired.
While today had many positives, the best part was that the work day ended on time.
Scratch that. The best part is yet to come: a well deserved outing with the loving work-widow Mrs. MMLTD. We’re going out to dinner...
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“Here at the bar who cares what I do
I’m all alone but I’m drinking...”
– Jonathan Coulton, Nobody Loves You Like Me
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Victory Lap
I’m in hour 12 of my work day, but I’m in a good mood.
I’ve received some really good feedback this week, and have been making tweaks to my day-to-day work. I finally implemented some changes to how one of my key meetings are handled, so now it’s much more functional and engaging. I took on 2 conference calls concurrently, and somehow managed to contribute to both....
