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March 17th, 2008 — , , ,
I just have one goal today: finish my self evaluation for work. It is really one of the things I hate to do, and that is why I am procrastinating. It wasn’t so bad in my last company because they had a formal process of setting goals every quarter and I had a pretty supportive and communicative manager that told me what he thought of my work quite often. My manager in my current company is also pretty nice and easy to talk to, but the formal review process was just established this year and it is a bit confusing for everyone here.
The most annoying thing about self evaluations is when they give you a numbered scale asking you how you think you did. Should you be modest here? Or should you just be honest? Sometimes even when you are being honest your assessment of your work may not match up to what others think and you could come off as sounding arrogant. I usually try to be honest and rate myself a bit above average, but is that how my peers see me? Sometimes the number ratings’ associated descriptions are pretty vague. For example, why is “made excellent contributions” ranked 3 and “often exceeded expectations” ranked 4? Does that mean excellent contributions don’t exceed expectations? Basically, I hate how HR tries to make every rating sound nice and fine.
It is also a bit hard for me to fill this form out with a ton of achievements for the past year since I have only been here for four months. So my list of accomplishments seem kind of pithy. I don’t think that is a big problem because my manager should understand that I am still really new here. I do have a good habit of writing down things I have accomplished in my notebook, but it is hard to summarize small day to day accomplishments such as “made this thing run again”.
Another crappy thing about this particular performance review is that I am pretty sure I will not get a raise because of the length of my service here. I am okay with it considering that they just gave me a pretty nice hiring bonus a few months ago. Hopefully next year I will get a bigger raise than usual.
There has been a ton of changes in every part of my company for reasons I will not state here. I will say that I do believe in the direction the company is taking. I just hope they refine their performance review process a bit more so that it isn’t so annoying and time consuming to fill out these forms. Unfortunately, I guess I am amongst the first batch of guinea pigs to go through this at this company. So how about you? Do you have any tips or rants about the self evaluation process of performance reviews?
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March 16th, 2008 — , ,
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March 15th, 2008 — , ,
I have been tinkering with a few new programs to promote my site and generate more revenue. Here are my trials and experiences:
1. viagra maximum dose- I just joined this program last night. It is basically a link exchange program between bloggers, but it is ridiculously addictive. You can see it in my left sidebar under the heading Entrecard. You earn a credit for dropping your card into the widget of other bloggers and also receive a credit for getting drops in your widget. Then the credits can be used to buy advertising on other sites. Some of the great personal finance sites you can advertise on are ridiculously cheap because they just joined Entrecard recently. Some of the less popular sites are also ridiculously expensive to advertise on. I haven’t perfected my advertising strategy yet, but I did read a ton of blogs today and got quite a bit of visitors as a result.
2. Since Google ad revenues are dropping lately all across the web I researched where I could get some pay per impression ads. After looking around for an entire night I found Adsdaq and signed up. It is run by the reputable ContextWeb and accepts small publishers like me. With it I could set my own CPM for my ads. Right now it is performing better than BlogherAds and the ads are all very professional looking. I set the Google ad tags as the backup tag for Adsdaq and my Google earnings have not dropped. So far after using Adsdaq for a week I got $12, and this is really good because they pay when you reach $50.
3. – I usually hate social bookmarking sites (especially Digg), but I am discovering really good links at Mixx. I have been submitting one or two things I find interesting there, and it seems that they don’t penalize for submitting your own stuff.
4. WidgetBucks – This was a failure since I don’t have a product centric site. After 2000 impressions I earned nothing, so I took it off.
Additionally, I am still writing for Wise Bread and here are a few more of my favorite articles:
I think I am getting more serious about blogging lately, and I may be spending too much time on it. I still had time to go out with the hubby and watch TV, though. I think I have all this extra time because I don’t have a game to play currently. It is a good thing.
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March 14th, 2008 — , , , , , , , , ,
I have written about previously, and also shared . I think most of us saw this coming, and a lot of us will just go on quite unaffected as long as we have a source of income. There are some effects I am seeing due to the recession all around me and I feel like I should address them here.
viagra maximum dose- Unfortunately I am hearing a lot of news about good teachers being fired all across California and student walking out of schools to participate in protests in the hope of keeping their teachers. It is a pretty difficult situation for everyone, but with 1 in 240 or so homes in foreclosure, the state of California is losing billions in tax revenues. The former budgets made in the flush housing bubble years are just not sustainable anymore. The funding cuts are necessary because I heard that municipal bonds are not selling well these days and there just isn’t enough money. I still think it is stupid to fire good teachers, and I hope it really is the last resort.
viagra maximum dose- The value of the dollar is plunging around the world. This is going to make travelling quite a bit more expensive for Americans. I know my trip to China later this year will be much more expensive than the past two years. It will also make everything we import more expensive. Since we import almost every thingamajig from China and the Chinese Yuan is 12% higher than last year, I expect household goods will increase in price quite a bit. However, it also makes American exports more attractive so hopefully that will make our economy recover more quickly.
viagra maximum dose- This is insane, but last month I picked up pizza dough for 99 cents at Trader Joe’s, and this month it was 1.29! The same item increased 30% in a month. Then I heard on the radio that flour prices are skyrocketing and many bakeries are paying 2 to 4 times what they paid last August for flour. The reason is that wheat supplies dwindled this year and the demand increased. Other foods are also getting more expensive because of increased global competition for food and gas.
I haven’t really heard of massive job loss here in the Silicon Valley…yet. It seems like companies are hoarding tons of cash, and that could be a good thing. Today our CEO said that “difficult economic times are times for great companies to shine”, and I agree with him. Anyway, I feel like my life hasn’t been affected greatly by the current recession, but that may change in the future if food gets more expensive than rent.
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March 12th, 2008 — , , ,
Wow, spring is almost upon us, and there are more San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble, too. This is the most distressed properties I have ever seen in a 4 week period. 135 properties is almost 30% of all the listings in our small county.
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I have decided that I may startand update it more frequently to record these properties. The blog would be a good service to my community and it would be easier to navigate than . Each home will have its own post and I can categorize the homes much better via blog categories!
Anyway, today I read a really good article by a teenage girl about the foreclosure situation: I am glad to see there is still hope for the younger generation!