Career Planning, no?
Posted by Isabel on October 19th, 2006. Filed under: Work.I am busily (is that a word?) working on my “Performance and Career Planning Form 2006″ for today’s review here at work. My review is in 2 hours. The form should have been completed weeks ago.
I put it off until this morning. Because really, how hard is it to score myself “10″ over and over again?
“10″ being absolutely fabulous in all things pertaining to Performance and Career Planning, no?
Instead of putting the utmost thought and preparation into filing out the form I decided to wear a skirt to work today. Here’s hoping the skirt will get me more money.
(There will be no talk of Project Runway today. I think you know why.)
October 19th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Don’t worry–if your boss gives you a less than favorable review (which is like, totally impossible anyway), just sue him for sexual discrimination!
October 19th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Good luck with the skirt!
Can your readers comment about Project Runway, by the way? Because, seriously — SO the wrong decision.
October 19th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
I hate those stupid evaluate-yourself forms. Who is not going to give themselves good marks? Is it a psychological test? They always make me wonder.
Good move on the skirt, though. I always dress up for reviews and important meetings (Sometimes I even put on lip gloss! I do own makeup, I just never wear it!). Sometimes I feel like I’m encouragine sexual discrimination and the judging of women on their looks… but, hey. Whatever works. Good luck!
October 19th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
hahha the skirt idea is GOLD!
Can’t go wrong Isabel..it’s a winner.
October 19th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Big money! No Wammys! Big Money! Big Money!
October 19th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Make it a really short skirt! You might get more money. heehee.
Reminds me of a story. In high school I once did some filing/admin duties for this creepy guy who ran a few apartment complexes. If I work a miniskirt, he told me, I’d get “miniskirt wages” which were 50 cents and hour higher. He kept badgering me to wear a miniskirt for weeks. So one day, I finally did. And then on that day, he made me scrub the bathroom floor. Yes, in my skirt.
I finally told my parents. I had bought my first car around that time. I wanted to quit but I needed money for my car. My parents told me to quit. They said they’d help me pay for the car and not to worry. That’s how I knew the situation was REALLY bad. The most frugal people on earth — people who’d never give their children a nickel were telling me, “Don’t worry about the money. We will help you out.”
I quit after two months. Turns out, he only employeed high school girls and would badger them too. And he told me later, no one had ever worked for him for as long as I did. (You would think that would tell him something, yes?)
October 19th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I stayed up very late (ok, the baby kept me up very late) so I could watch PR. I do not know what to say!
October 19th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Good luck! I hope it goes well and that the skirt helps in getting a big raise!
October 19th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
That’s always a good way to get more money. I love skirts… all forms and types, but my absolute fav is the mini skirt. I can and will wear a mini skirt with anything.
October 19th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
ugh, my review is next month. I am already dreading the awkwardness!
Good luck! (Since I will pretend this comment is not too late to do any good)
October 19th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
How did it go (or is it going now)? Not that you need it, but good luck! Are you going to do that Cuba Gooding Jr. scene from Jerry Maguire? Good idea.
October 19th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
I’m not sure that anything is as hard as our reviews. We have three questions — what are we doing well, what are we sucking at and what can we improve on. It’s bad enough that we have to fill those out ourselves, but to top it off we have to torture three of our coworkers with filling one out too!
In a way, you want to pick coworkers you like because they’ll probably give you a good review. But you also feel bad breaking the news to someone you like that they are stuck filling out your dumb review form.
So anyway, good luck or um, hope it went well.
October 20th, 2006 at 8:37 am
I’ve never been to a review before! (gulps)
Although I’m not looking forward to it – I’m hoping yours went well, I’m sure it will! Perfect 10’s, all the way.
October 20th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Living in the UK, I tend to read your entries one day late. Thus, being Friday, I read this entry as the King Friday contribution. I thought wearing a skirt to work for his annual review was a questionable move…
October 20th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
[...] How did my review go yesterday, you ask? No thanks to my skirt, it went just fine. I did make sure to put my glasses on before I went in. Mostly because I’ve heard there are actual studies proving that you seem smarter when wearing glasses. Dude, I’ll take any help I can get. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 5:49 pm
[...] I like my job. I do. I really do. I work with cool people. I’m working on an interesting project right now. I’m learning new things. I just got a (tiny) raise. My commute rocks. (Does a 5 minute walk count as a “commute”?) But still, it’s hard. It’s hard to be away from home all day. It’s hard to only have a few hours with my Sweet Babboo each night. It’s even harder to only see The King for maybe an hour a day. Maybe. [...]