At least it’s apparent
I got my review at work a few days ago, and it went pretty well in my opinion. My boss sat me down and asked me how I thought I was doing. I’d been dealing with some… “reservations”… at work recently so I thought I’d lay it all down on the line. I told him I thought my numbers were lacking, and that I spend too long on events that could be passed quickly, just because they perk my curiosity and I over-investigate them. I told him I was bored out of my skull and I latch onto any opportunity to practice the things I’ve learned and really apply myself. And that I need to get into an engineer position badly. He came back with “Good. That’s pretty much exactly what I put. Glad we’re on the same page”. Apparently upper management only sees numbers, so I have to spend a few months pushing trash. But Joe has assured me he’s speaking loudly for me to get into CCNA training to get an engineer spot. I wish it was coming sooner, but this is good news.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
You think YOU are bored? LOL. Well anyway I’m glad Joe approves…sorry you have to do yucky stuff, but that’s kinda how jobs work…you have to do youcky stuff over half the time.
I have a text file with about a dozen lines in it. I copy a prepackaged response for each event I work and paste it in the event, then push it along. I might actually “work” 2-5 events a day. I used to really dig into each event, but after seeing that everyone else just pushed things along like an assembly line I got kind of disenchanted and stopped bothering. doing real work was just hurting my numbers =/.
Yeah I understand. My job also involves little real creative thought, and I think that applies to rather a lot of people these days. They can replace us with robots soon.