Lame.

The evaluation was confusing, to say the least. Normally when you go into these things you can be reasonably sure you'll talk about your performance and whether you're "skating on thin ice and playing by you own rules," or, you wonder afterward if they should build a statue in your honor. I got neither. Instead, my boss talked about how another employee sucks, and how he's turned down all these raises in his life, and how he's really not tooting his horn, but he's kind of a big deal.

I was utterly confused, but I shouldn't have been. The job interview went a lot like that. He'd only asked me one or two questions, and one of them was what my favorite book was. ("The Abolition of Man," I said.) I was especially confused because I went in expecting to learn how I could "improve," or what his "concerns" were. I got none of that. In fact, he wanted to know why I thought I deserved a raise?

Huh? Where'd that come from?

So, I outlined some things, pointed out that I'd taken on a major project when I started, blah, blah, blah. Then he tells me that I probably won't get a raise because the boss's only impression of my work was that big project which was a Charlie Fox from the beginning. I was basically "tasked" to sythesize the thoughts of ten people, and none of those people knew the direction of the project in the first place. Bossman basically admitted that his direction hampered me from doing it right.

Should I be mad? I suppose. But this is just the way it is when you work for someone else, I guess.

This day is not starting out well...