assessment, yay!
Nov. 25th, 2006 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperHad assessment at work. Which lasted 1h45m. It was... thorough.
Many things were gone over in detail. Considering my side of the form that I'd filled out often included 'er... possibly' and 'um, what?' 'we do not speak about customer services' 'leadership? me? I think *not*' and the classic 'I feel my sewing skills are under-utilised' (the form did *ask* what skills you have that you don't use), it's scary how much detail they went into or pulled out of me.
The 'how do you feel about your training of other people went' produced 'er, what?'. Then they pointed out that I'd trained everyone in my department and it seemed to have worked out rather well. I keep forgetting that. And that I keep records on things, notes of what doesn't work, possible solutions, re-wrote various manuals and have the most techie knowledge of the system of our lot. I keep forgetting this because it gets swallowed by day-to-day. The fact that I describe myself as 'needing a good kicking occasionally' seems to disturb my bosses. As well as telling them that if you want something to get through to me, you need to be ridiculously blunt. 'you, er, don't subscribe to the idea of treat others as you would be done by?' 'oh, sure. I'm just saying that if you want something to get through to me specifically, it needs to be blunt.' 'How would you describe Morven's work?' 'Ridiculously efficient, goddess on earth, do you want me to be embarassingly gushy?'
I think they keep being a little surprised by my tendency towards colourful euphemisms for things. They work with me every day, they should be used to it and stop blinking and vicibly re-wiring their brains at such phrases as 'branches that contain entire trees and we so don't go there'.
Many things were gone over in detail. Considering my side of the form that I'd filled out often included 'er... possibly' and 'um, what?' 'we do not speak about customer services' 'leadership? me? I think *not*' and the classic 'I feel my sewing skills are under-utilised' (the form did *ask* what skills you have that you don't use), it's scary how much detail they went into or pulled out of me.
The 'how do you feel about your training of other people went' produced 'er, what?'. Then they pointed out that I'd trained everyone in my department and it seemed to have worked out rather well. I keep forgetting that. And that I keep records on things, notes of what doesn't work, possible solutions, re-wrote various manuals and have the most techie knowledge of the system of our lot. I keep forgetting this because it gets swallowed by day-to-day. The fact that I describe myself as 'needing a good kicking occasionally' seems to disturb my bosses. As well as telling them that if you want something to get through to me, you need to be ridiculously blunt. 'you, er, don't subscribe to the idea of treat others as you would be done by?' 'oh, sure. I'm just saying that if you want something to get through to me specifically, it needs to be blunt.' 'How would you describe Morven's work?' 'Ridiculously efficient, goddess on earth, do you want me to be embarassingly gushy?'
I think they keep being a little surprised by my tendency towards colourful euphemisms for things. They work with me every day, they should be used to it and stop blinking and vicibly re-wiring their brains at such phrases as 'branches that contain entire trees and we so don't go there'.
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Date: 2006-11-25 01:22 am (UTC)Oh, and 'Do you think more meetings would help?' was met with 'You do know I heckle, right?' 'ah, yes, the heckling. perhaps not.'