My self-evaluation for work is due today. Since I’ve been here all night, the sooner I turn this in, the sooner I can go home. I have my 1-on-1 at 8:30.
This was so much easier to do when I didn’t have much responsibility. Read up on the job description, throw in a couple extra things about whatever new projects showed up on the line, and boom, you’re done.
Most of the operators like to gripe about how stupid it is, but also gripe about how no one notices what a good job they do. So they all hate it and some won’t even do it. Idiots. I put some effort into mine last year, and pretty much all of it came back in my review, which was very good. Significantly better than all of my co-workers. See how that works?
The reaction is more mixed amongst the engineers. At this level, the value of the self-evaluation is directly proportional to how seriously your boss takes it. If the manager that quit were still here and doing my review, I probably wouldn’t be worrying about it. But since my director seems to care, I figure I ought to make it good.
It’s pretty easy to sum up what I’ve done all year. At least lately. I kinda blocked out everything that happened before I switched departments. The part I’m struggling with is the intangibles. How exactly do I say, under my accomplishments, that I’ve singlehandedly kept this department running for two months, with not very much experience, at a very busy time?
I’m depending on my director to recognize that and I fully expect to see it when he gives me my review. But I ought to document it myself. This is where I’m supposed to be tooting my own horn, after all.
