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So on Friday afternoon, I went into my boss's office to discuss some things with her - nothing big, just updates on a few things I was working on. The door was ajar, so I knocked, and she said, "Who is it?" and I said, "Snacky!"* and then she yelled, "No, don't come in, don't come in yet, you can't come in!"
Which was odd. As the door was ajar, and I could see her sitting at her desk, working on her computer. But I waited until she said, "Okay, come in now!" and I did, and we discussed the things I went in to discuss and all was well, until I got up to leave and she said, "So I was going to give you your review at our weekly meeting on Monday. Or do you want to wait until the following Monday?"
Also odd. Among reasons it was odd:
1) Why would I want to wait for the following Monday? Do I need to prepare for this review? Is it going to be so bad that I need an extra week to perform fabulously to boost my score?
2) WHAT?
3) In my company, you get your annual reviews on the anniversary of your hire date. My anniversary was March 21st. However, I started my new job last October, so I haven't been in it a year.
4) My new boss started on March 4th. Basically she was reviewing me for the past 6 weeks we worked together and calling it an annual review.
5) How does THAT work?
So I sat back down and asked her why she was giving me an annual review based on 6 weeks of working together. Her reply: "I'm really behind the 8-ball here to get this done. This also makes no sense, considering our VP of HR is such a flake and would have no idea what's done and what's not, in terms of reviews. Who is putting the pressure on her to get this done?
So I said, "I'm fine with the review on Monday!" and left the office, asking, "Do you want me to shut the door?" To which she replied, "Yes, you have to, it's inappropriate, very inappropriate!"
Man, what? So I went immediately to the office of my friend, the assistant HR director and told her the story. Her first question: "What, was she naked when you knocked on the door?"
Her advice was to just do the review on Monday, and let it play out, and if she hadn't consulted my old boss, we'd deal with it then. We also concluded that she must have been working on my review and that was the weirdness with "inappropriate." It was the only guess!
So I had my review this morning! It went pretty well, actually. We're scored on a scale of 0-3 (0 = does not meet expectations at all, 1 = below expectations, 2 = meets expectations, and 3 = exceeds expectations), and I got mostly 2s with some 3s scattered in. She said, "I'm just warning you, I'm not a person who gives 3s." And I said, "Too bad, because I'm a person who deserves 3s, because I'm always exceeding expectations." She laughed, but come on, I'm awesome.
Anyway, decent review, I was fine with it, and when she was done, she asked, "Do you have any questions?" And I said, "Did you ask my former supervisor J, who supervised me for 8 months of the past year, if she had any input?" And she stared at me, and said, "I didn't! I never even thought of that! That's a good idea, maybe I should! Why don't you check with VP of HR to see what she thinks?"
So I did (VP of HR thought yes, that was a good idea), and now she has, and I will be getting a revised review. I told J to throw in a lot of 3s. :D
*Well, not "Snacky" but you know.
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The problem with watching Game of Thrones is the same problem I had with reading comics and watching Supernatural: I have to sit through awful shit that I then have to ignore to be able to really enjoy the stuff I do like.
I gave up reading comics a while ago. I stopped watching SPN too. After last week's rape scene, I was almost done with GoT for good. But I watched last night, and I'm glad I did, because I really enjoyed the episode.
Except for the part where I had to pretend the rape never happened, because the director and the show runners are too stupid to realize they filmed a rape scene and broadcast it, and instead thought it was dark, disturbing, but consensual sex. Which given the characters involved, and the scene it was based off in the books, I understand that was what they were aiming for. But it was so very clearly a rape that it makes me want to take out pre-emptive restraining orders against those douchebags.
So I had to pretend Jaime never raped Cersei, because the show was not presenting it that way. And I don't like doing that. I'm still annoyed at Days of our Lives because they had EJ rape Sami years ago and then turn into the love of her life and kind of a sympathetic antihero (which yes, I know, Luke and Laura, but that was the 70s, and this was within the past decade and shouldn't we have learned from that?) AND I DON'T WANT TO LIKE RAPISTS. I don't want sympathetic rapists on a redemptive hero's journey. I don't want to watch all of Jaime's scenes and be like, "... but rapist." :(
Still! Good episode if you ignore the rapist-elephant in the room. And hey, there was a lot of gratuitous rape in it, not done by Jaime, just in case you forgot.
SHOW. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.
Which was odd. As the door was ajar, and I could see her sitting at her desk, working on her computer. But I waited until she said, "Okay, come in now!" and I did, and we discussed the things I went in to discuss and all was well, until I got up to leave and she said, "So I was going to give you your review at our weekly meeting on Monday. Or do you want to wait until the following Monday?"
Also odd. Among reasons it was odd:
1) Why would I want to wait for the following Monday? Do I need to prepare for this review? Is it going to be so bad that I need an extra week to perform fabulously to boost my score?
2) WHAT?
3) In my company, you get your annual reviews on the anniversary of your hire date. My anniversary was March 21st. However, I started my new job last October, so I haven't been in it a year.
4) My new boss started on March 4th. Basically she was reviewing me for the past 6 weeks we worked together and calling it an annual review.
5) How does THAT work?
So I sat back down and asked her why she was giving me an annual review based on 6 weeks of working together. Her reply: "I'm really behind the 8-ball here to get this done. This also makes no sense, considering our VP of HR is such a flake and would have no idea what's done and what's not, in terms of reviews. Who is putting the pressure on her to get this done?
So I said, "I'm fine with the review on Monday!" and left the office, asking, "Do you want me to shut the door?" To which she replied, "Yes, you have to, it's inappropriate, very inappropriate!"
Man, what? So I went immediately to the office of my friend, the assistant HR director and told her the story. Her first question: "What, was she naked when you knocked on the door?"
Her advice was to just do the review on Monday, and let it play out, and if she hadn't consulted my old boss, we'd deal with it then. We also concluded that she must have been working on my review and that was the weirdness with "inappropriate." It was the only guess!
So I had my review this morning! It went pretty well, actually. We're scored on a scale of 0-3 (0 = does not meet expectations at all, 1 = below expectations, 2 = meets expectations, and 3 = exceeds expectations), and I got mostly 2s with some 3s scattered in. She said, "I'm just warning you, I'm not a person who gives 3s." And I said, "Too bad, because I'm a person who deserves 3s, because I'm always exceeding expectations." She laughed, but come on, I'm awesome.
Anyway, decent review, I was fine with it, and when she was done, she asked, "Do you have any questions?" And I said, "Did you ask my former supervisor J, who supervised me for 8 months of the past year, if she had any input?" And she stared at me, and said, "I didn't! I never even thought of that! That's a good idea, maybe I should! Why don't you check with VP of HR to see what she thinks?"
So I did (VP of HR thought yes, that was a good idea), and now she has, and I will be getting a revised review. I told J to throw in a lot of 3s. :D
*Well, not "Snacky" but you know.
*************
The problem with watching Game of Thrones is the same problem I had with reading comics and watching Supernatural: I have to sit through awful shit that I then have to ignore to be able to really enjoy the stuff I do like.
I gave up reading comics a while ago. I stopped watching SPN too. After last week's rape scene, I was almost done with GoT for good. But I watched last night, and I'm glad I did, because I really enjoyed the episode.
Except for the part where I had to pretend the rape never happened, because the director and the show runners are too stupid to realize they filmed a rape scene and broadcast it, and instead thought it was dark, disturbing, but consensual sex. Which given the characters involved, and the scene it was based off in the books, I understand that was what they were aiming for. But it was so very clearly a rape that it makes me want to take out pre-emptive restraining orders against those douchebags.
So I had to pretend Jaime never raped Cersei, because the show was not presenting it that way. And I don't like doing that. I'm still annoyed at Days of our Lives because they had EJ rape Sami years ago and then turn into the love of her life and kind of a sympathetic antihero (which yes, I know, Luke and Laura, but that was the 70s, and this was within the past decade and shouldn't we have learned from that?) AND I DON'T WANT TO LIKE RAPISTS. I don't want sympathetic rapists on a redemptive hero's journey. I don't want to watch all of Jaime's scenes and be like, "... but rapist." :(
Still! Good episode if you ignore the rapist-elephant in the room. And hey, there was a lot of gratuitous rape in it, not done by Jaime, just in case you forgot.
SHOW. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME.