Hiya!<\/p>\n
Well, day 3 into my Alcohol Fast and I must say it’s feeling… well, a bit like most weeks, really, given that I don’t usually drink on a Monday or Sunday. To be honest, I might save the no-alcohol updates til the weekend, as (as Mr Hey rightly points out) that’ll be the real test.<\/p>\n
That said, I could probably do with a beer right now. Why? Because it’s Mid Year Appraisal Time at work! <\/p>\n
Woohoo! Never before has all the hassle of getting an appraisal done been married so well to a totally meaningless end result.<\/p>\n
That’s right, even if we wrote “I AM A FISH” 100 times on the mid-term, it really makes no difference to pay or promotion prospects from what I can gather. So long as I hand in a half-decent appraisal form at the end of the year, I’ll still get judged reasonably. Provided I don’t write “Wrote a piss take mid year appraisal” as one of my 2009 Achievements.<\/p>\n
Alas, I don’t quite have the guts to do it. What I might put in my “room for improvement” section is “Stop being all mouth no trousers”.<\/p>\n
On a tangent, that phrase has never made sense to me: surely someone who’s being very lippy AND has no trousers on is clearly pretty confident, and shouldn’t be mocked. They should be downright feared.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’d best stop rambling on and go to work to write my mid-year. You know what? I bet I’ll try to make it great too. I’m rubbish at subversion.<\/p>\n
Pat<\/p>\n
Days without Alcohol: 3 (count them)
\nMood: Excited, Yet Bored. How the hell is that even possible?
\nTune Up My Head: The Postal Service – Brand New Colony<\/small><\/p>\n
P.S. for not-getting-sacked reasons, I would like to state that I appreciate the mid year appraisal is useful for giving an individual the opportunity to improve on any weaknesses prior to the actually-going-towards-your-performance-record end-of-year appraisal. This blog post is written purely “tongue in cheek”, ok?
\nP.P.S. For not-ruining-the-above-blog-post reasons, I would like you to ignore the “P.S.” above. Thanks.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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