RE: Performance Review

["Dave George" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
Many people have quit and then did the same job as a
consultant, sometimes for the same company.  More pay,
a lot more freedom, and a **huge** increase in
respect.
</snip>

Absolutely! I worked my butt off for a company, fully
recognising that a good review = more cash.

At my last review, I got a 97% score. I asked where the
other 3% went, and they reply came that I didn't always look right.
By looking right, it transpired that sometimes people saw me
unshaven and a little dishevelled.

There was good reason. Often I hadn't been home, but instead
had grabbed a shower in the company facilities, grabbed 40 winks
on a sofa in the smoking room - waking up every hour to check 
something. My longest stint was from 7am Friday morning to
2am Monday morning. 

I realised that however hard I worked I would never meet the
100% mark, or stop facial hair growing or that pink crazed look
in the eye from too much coffee. I promptly left.

Since then, I work on projects I want to do, get home at night,
and enjoy working with other companies and I am relishing a new 
spark in application development that was missing before - without 
the endless meetings and game playing.

My current boss, (who is also my live-in chef) still only
gives me a 97% score at review time, but she marks me down for leaving
bits of beard in the sink and not putting the toilet seat down after
use.

I may not be 100% - but I'm so much happier.

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