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Rock!...oopsie.
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the pitch above you
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 28, 2015 - 06:13pm PT
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Just had my review at work. Usually this is mundane and doesn't really do much for me, but this year was special.
Apparently I'm an as#@&%e. But I'm not an unmitigated as#@&%e, and my mitigating factor is the best there is.
Here's the gem they gave me that may go on my headstone:
"Bob does sometimes have a firmness of opinion that can come across as oppositional, though this view of his attitude is mitigated by his most often being correct."
I'm thinking about putting it on my business cards... maybe a mug for meetings.
Any of you folks got one liners like that from your boss? Let's hear it.
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Jan 28, 2015 - 06:25pm PT
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Wow, I'd take that review in a heartbeat.
Both my wife and I laughed out loud... as#@&%e :)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Jan 28, 2015 - 08:53pm PT
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It's hard to soar like an eagle when you work with a bunch of turkeys! Lol
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 29, 2015 - 08:40am PT
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Good point re: agreeable vs. correct in corporate world. I've found the following compromise: make very clear what I think is right, acknowledge when other approaches are valid, and what I think will happen if other (stupid) ideas are followed, and then go with the flow whatever the higher-ups decide.
That original review quote is a gem :)
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John M
climber
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Jan 29, 2015 - 08:42am PT
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In the world of corporate hierarchies, being agreeable is far more important than being correct.
to a point. It does help if when you don't get along with someone that you are right and you save the company money. I had run-ins with two managers. One started a review about me with.."John finds it hard to follow orders.". I protested and went over her head. What I found was it was difficult to follow stupid orders. She ended up being fired. Both people I had disagreements with ended up being fired. Though I do understand that if the manager is competent, then you have to try and work with them even when you disagree. But competence comes first. Of course you had better have friends in high places.. which I did, or you had better be right. Which I was.
Very funny review rock!.. oopsie. I wish the manger who review me was as witty.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jan 29, 2015 - 08:47am PT
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Nice... one.
Review time is so much fun.
thanks for the am laugh.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:48am PT
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That is awesome, save for the fact that you are being chastised for refusing to crumble under the pressure of idiots.....
When I was in sixth grade, apparently I was disruptive to the class. I don't recall ever doing anything, but my older sister told me recently that I would sit at my desk and have conversations with myself; conversations which were loosely based on the lesson the teacher was providing at the time.
I DO tend to converse with myself...
Anyway, the parents got called in and the school principal said "Terrie has leadership qualities. But it seems she is leading the other students in the wrong direction."
But as for jobs - not really anything of note. I have been fired from nearly every job as a handbag designer I ever had, because I refused to crumble under the pressure of idiots. Yet I was always hired by another firm to come in at the last minute and create lines. And they usually made record breaking sales off those lines. Yes, end of season and again - fired. People don't like it when you rock the ship, even if you are good at what you do.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Jan 29, 2015 - 10:52am PT
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Thanks for the laugh.
I got a pretty good one during my exit interview with the boss when I retired.
Him: " I don't know why I put up with you for 20 years"
Me: " 'cause I covered your ass and made you piles of money, that's why"
Him: < pause> " I guess there was that"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 29, 2015 - 01:09pm PT
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did you get a raise?
He didn't get sh!t-canned, that's as good as a raise these days, isn't it?
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jan 29, 2015 - 01:54pm PT
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Nice. But you might not have been able to get away with something like that in the military in an annual officer's review fifty years ago. Or so I recall.
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
the pitch above you
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2015 - 04:28pm PT
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did you get a raise?
Yeah, I did.
You were probably a very good student.
Our educational system rewards us for correctness - we are trained to believe that the right answer is always the goal.
In the world of corporate hierarchies, being agreeable is far more important than being correct.
Yes, Yes, and it depends (Like John M suggests).
It's worse than you might expect, I'm a scientist so seeing people act counter to what the data indicates makes me cringe.
With regard to the last point, IF you save them millions you can be a giant ass sometimes and they still have to love you. Depends on who's in the loop.
But you might not have been able to get away with something like that in the military in an annual officer's review fifty years ago.
I don't think I'm cut out for the military. Never was much for externally imposed discipline.
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Rock!...oopsie.
Trad climber
the pitch above you
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2015 - 05:32pm PT
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I had my self review today and was happy to find out that I still have a job...
your boss might be high on glue but he seems to have his priorities straight.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Jan 30, 2015 - 08:53am PT
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My favorite line from a review I got:
"Joe can improve his communication skills by watching his body language."
Apparently I was turning bright red and putting my head down on the table when the program manager was spewing idiocy, and she found this to be distracting. I had previously been told to stop speaking up at those meeting, but even involuntary reactions to stupidity needed to be controlled.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 30, 2015 - 09:05am PT
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Moof, don't play high stakes poker.
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