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[darchildre]

Have just completed my yearly self-appraisal.

I hate doing those things. For one thing, I (like many women) have a hard time talking about Ways in Which I Am Awesome. For another, the questions are stupid. (Have I demonstrated innovation thinking at the library in the past year? Hell if I know. Probably not.) For a third, I have to set goals and I hate setting goals at work.

I always want to scrawl across the whole thing: "I DID MY JOB". Expansion? "I came to work every day - early, in fact. I never left before I was supposed to. I never called in sick and I rarely took vacation. I checked in books. I checked out books. I helped people find books. I answered questions about a multiplicity of subjects. My patrons went away happy and my coworkers do not hate me. Were you ever displeased with me? Not that you mentioned. Because I did my job." Goals for the coming year? "My goal is to continue to come to work and do my job."

And now I get to anticipate sitting down with my manager and talking about it. Grar.

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[silveradept]

Yeah, those are always fun. "I did my job. What more do you want?" Although, in my case, it's often "I did my job, the one that's in my description, and not this other one that you're foisting on me and are expressing disappointment that I'm not doing it exactly the way you want."