Well I suppose after writing about the new in-laws and the wedding for the last month or so I will mix things up a bit and talk about work again. I is that time of year again were I have to fill out self evals and the mucky-mucks of the region get together and decide how everyone did for the year. Now that I have gone through it once before I can honestly say that I have completely different expectations. Again this year I ended things with great reviews. In fact, and I am not just tooting my own horn, I actually had reviews that said I was a life-saver for the project. So at a normal firm I would be expecting to get a high mark for the year. But I know that probably won’t be the case.
For one thing I have not been able to participate in extra curricular activities as much. My project required too much time. Also I had one eval that was average. Finally I am from a smaller office and have limited exposure to people with power in the region. Most of these are in Chicago. On top of this I have a week advocate. It’s not that she doesn’t care; it’s that she doesn’t have any time. We never meet face to face, I almost never get any real counseling, and I have the suspicion she doesn’t do any real follow-up on my forms. I also know that most people fall into the same rating and that it takes quite a bit to get one of the two higher ratings. So alas while I had stellar reviews and was very happy to get them I am not very confident that in the long run this matters.
What will be interesting is to see what kind of lame excuses they give this year. I’m pretty sure they will play the office activities card, but we shall see. The firm is great at coming up with trivial things to put you in the average category. Not that it really matters, last year the difference in raises was .8% from my rating and the next rating and it should affect my chances for promotion. So as long as those two things stay on track they can keep giving me the same rating and giving me the same excuses. Though I think it might be prudent to ask for a new counselor. But I will have to wait another 3 weeks before I find out my rating and with in a couple weeks of that I should find out if I am promoted, and then in August I should get my compensation call. Hopefully it is huge but, we shall see. I have other things to worry about, like getting better roles and experience, if the rest of it doesn’t fall into place these things will let me go to a firm where they do – not that I have any plans to do so.
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