Is there really a sense of accomplishment in clearing the “immediate needs” support list just so I have time tomorrow to sit through two classes on secure coding and write my annual self-evaluation?

Definitely unrelated: have I recently grumbled about how much I hate the make-work foo-fah that is the annual self-evaluation? In terms of my actual review and associated merit raise (assuming there are merit raises to be had), it has no weight. I honestly fill these damn things out hoping that I’m not too far above or below where my manager is going to rate me instead of how I actually feel. Because it would be weird to have a giant discrepancy, no?

Also, the goals we set at the beginning of the year (theoretically, but actually sometime near the beginning of the second quarter) always get updated right before the review process starts to match what we actually did during the year. So really the whole thing is a sham.

And stupid.

And an utter waste of my time.

Because when I waste time at work, I want it to be on my terms!