[lug] getting started in the IT industry, focus on FOSS

[Nate Duehr]

It's all so amazingly subjective anyway... you can play nice all year,
and get cranky about one item just before review time, and get dinged. 
Did that one year.  

Got a "stellar" review the next year (top 2% of the company).  No change
in behavior.  ;-)

I just happened to rub someone who had the authority to mess with the
review the wrong way that first year.  It happens.  Heh.

Wait? You still get annual raises?  I thought all companies gave those
up for Lent a few years ago.  LOL! 

Sometimes I think I need a bumper sticker that says, "Dilbert is real."

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  Nate Duehr
  nate at natetech.com

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:00 -0700, "Kenneth D Weinert"
<kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
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> Nate Duehr wrote:
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> >  
> > Sysadmins also have to have excellent customer service skills.
> >  Developers (although I wish this weren't true, and wasn't a
> > stereotype)... not as much. 
> 
> Speaking as a person who just got dinged on my annual review for not
> working and playing well with others, I would interject that this aspect
> of being a developer depends on your boss.
> 
> And I thought I *was* playing nice with them. At least the company
> picked a good year to change the system so the "score" on your annual
> review is no longer tied to your raise :)
> 
> - --
> Ken
> We have enough youth - now how about a Fountain of Smart?