Re: Self-reviews

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

"Year after year"... Gee, I wonder what that's like - to be in the same
workplace long enough to need to come up with new key strengths because it
becomes too repetitive.

My key strength is the ability to find another job after getting laid
off/end of contract before the bank account hits zero.

-Wendy

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Downing, David <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>wrote:

> To be fair, the order to do it didn't come from my manager. The order
> came from on high, and everybody in the company has to do it. My manager
> doubtless has to do it as well, for whoever he reports to.
>
> I'd like to just say that my key strength is my ability to write well
> and understand our software, but like I said, I can't keep saying that
> year after year.
>
> Regarding your last idea -- review by parents and spouses, we actually
> had anonymous peer reviews for awhile, The problem was that you could
> always be about 99 44/100 % sure who made which comment.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- windstream -dot- net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:34 AM
> To: Downing, David
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Self-reviews
>
> Downing, David wrote:
> > Does anybody here have to do a self-review as part of their
> performance
> > review? I confess I have  a hard time with it -- specifically the
> > section where you have to list your "key strengths," because you have
> to
> > think of new ones each year. I was wondering if other folks have to
> deal
> > with this and how they deal with it.
>
> I hate those things. I often feel it's the manager shirking his
> responsibilities, even if HR put him up to doing it that way.
> Unfortunately one of my key strengths is the ability to write
> facetiously. So I'll write up a writeup in which I mention that very
> ability.
>
> For my previously mentioned career change, I think I'll invent new
> management systems. Let's see how many I can invent in five minutes.
>
> 1. Management by musical chairs. When the horn honks, everyone changes
> to doing someone else's task. This causes the training that helps cover
> emergencies, but at the expense of a bit of the here-and-now.
>
> 2. Management by darts. The agenda for each day for each employee is
> discovered by throwing darts at the dartboard. A variation uses one of
> the employees, perhaps Wally, as the dartboard.
>
> 3. Review by parents, spouses and children. Management, faced with
> rebellion against the old-fashioned self review, asks that the review be
>
> completed by those who obviously know the employee best.
>
> Time's up, and it's not even Friday.
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