Boring But Necessary Tasks
Jul. 20th, 2006 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI'm supposed to have a mid-year performance assessment with my boss today. We were supposed to have it on Monday but he rescheduled it because of other pressing issues. Ultimately, that rescheduling worked to my advantage as I'm now able to report two projects are 100% complete instead of merely in progress, and I received an award certificate for past achievement in the inter-office mail.
Trying to compose a list of one's professional accomplishments over the past 6-7 months is one of the most tedious and boring acts possible, yet it must be done. My boss can't lobby for a bonus or raise on my behalf unless he has the documentation to back up the request and if I can't advocate for my work & projects, who can?
At least the task is less painful for me than most other colleagues: I've kept a daily log of my work activities so it's easy to reconstruct my major accomplishments. The frustration comes from attempting to capture how mind-bogglingly difficult some tasks are when reduced to only 10 words in a single sentence half-way down a page, but that's why we have these assessments face-to-face instead of by e-mail.
I'm expecting our meeting later this morning to be quick and relatively painless.
Trying to compose a list of one's professional accomplishments over the past 6-7 months is one of the most tedious and boring acts possible, yet it must be done. My boss can't lobby for a bonus or raise on my behalf unless he has the documentation to back up the request and if I can't advocate for my work & projects, who can?
At least the task is less painful for me than most other colleagues: I've kept a daily log of my work activities so it's easy to reconstruct my major accomplishments. The frustration comes from attempting to capture how mind-bogglingly difficult some tasks are when reduced to only 10 words in a single sentence half-way down a page, but that's why we have these assessments face-to-face instead of by e-mail.
I'm expecting our meeting later this morning to be quick and relatively painless.
