I feel so much better today Last week my best friend at work was on holiday, and whilst I knew she was still in the UK, I was nevertheless trying not to contact her and interrupt her week off. Restraint isn’t my strongest virtue, but I managed to content myself by sending her an email on Friday afternoon in which I vented my feelings about the entire business in as much depth as it is prudent to vent one’s feelings about senior management in work email Anyway, I got a text from her first thing this morning in which she said she’d just got my email… and she’d been graded as 2 too! (more…)

I’m tired, so rather than explain my appraisal in technicolour detail, I’m going to post the results of the form with a bit of explanatory commentary. It’s over now at least, and as I said to someone earlier, the benefit of always assuming the worst is that you are never unpleasantly surprised It could have been worse, but on the whole it was as I expected – no worse, no better! (more…)

Tomorrow is my annual appraisal, and so I am not a happy bunny Part of me is hoping it will be postponed again, though the other part of me would be glad to get it over and done with and find out if/when I will be getting a payrise. The word on the street is that the full payrise doesn’t come until September when we sign new contracts, but we have to go up at least £1k in theory because the new graduates starting in September 08 will be on £1k more than the graduates who started in September 07, and we always go up proportionally… (more…)