In accordance with company…decree, I ran
through a bifurcated performance
review/goal-setting exercise last week with my once and future managers. It
was a process only somewhat more crazy-making than the single shot that most
people will have gone through, on account of the transition from once to
future.
I won’t go into detail, but I’m taking it as
good news that my new manager does not seem to view my employment on the team
as ending with the Summer Solstice, which was the deadline for me turning in a
business plan. The iffy news is that expectations beyond that point are…well, vague might be entirely too concrete a
description for them.
It looks like it’s up to me to define what I’ll
be doing once the business plan is approved, which might not be entirely a bad
thing. Although when I look around a room and realize I’m the most organized
person in it, I get decidedly uneasy.
However—I have been authorized to attend the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing again this year, which is in
October, so this gives me a bit more of an opportunity to enter into a serious
job search. And GHC is prime hunting for that.
So, after the past weeks of uncertainty and
dread, I’m really grateful for this respite.
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