Notes From Cubicle 211-A

1) Sweetest day is bullshit. For years Mrs. kkk has been harping about why I do nothing for this day. I bring up the "it's just another day for Hallmark" defense. I win each year, but then again I just tune her out.

 

2) I'm sure you could figure out on your own which of your fellow students didn't pass said Texas test. I know I could during my time in school.

 

So if I decide to NOT meet the basic requirements of my job, my boss should not give raises to everyone else so that I don't feel too bad about myself?

 

Don't tell you boss that -- he/she will probably use that as an excuse not to award raises. Well, that and the damn Bush economy.

The company sent out an e-mail the other day stating that our annual "salary adjustment" will take effect January 1 instead of the usual date of April 1. This was meant to boost our morale I'm sure, but all it did was fuel cynical speculation such as "we get it three months earlier--does that mean we're getting 3% less this year?"

 

But yeah, I'm keeping my damn fool mouth shut. I'll just fill in the self-evaluation form with the usual bullshit about how I actually work all the days I'm supposed to and always finish my work on time and let the powers that be fill in their form with all the ways I've failed them. Then I'll wait to see what the o'l paycheck looks like come January.

"Salary Adjustment." And some employers wonder why you only come in, do your job and don't try to do anything above what you were hired for.

In Washington it's the WASL. But when I took it, it wasn't required to pass to graduate (as is the case now) so they didn't even bother giving you your score until Junior year. (Took it Sophmore year.) Weak. And we certainly didn't get pizza or anything (although I did pass, go me!) but I do remember the week we had to take the stupid thing after we took the test we got starbursts and soda in one section, and after another we walked down to the IMAX to watch a film about the rainforest.

 

There was one upside to the WASL, all the sophmore's disappeared that week, so if you had classes with sophmores in them and weren't a sophmore you either had an fairly empty class where it was likely you didn't have to do anything but watch movies, or you were Smues who got FUCKED BY THE SYSTEM and was a junior in an all sophmore alegbra class (I will make a post about that bullshit someday) and they were using that class as a testing room so for that period all week I got a free pass basically to do what I wanted. That was nice.