Again, Nothing But Friggin' Work

So once again today was a complete waste of time and nothing more than me doing work at the entire day just as I have done the entire weekend so far. As far as I am concerned that is not a weekend whatsoever it's a work weekend where I have put every single waking hour working in front of the computer. I have not left the house or accomplished any of the things that I needed and wanted to get done this weekend which is going to make for a very long work week.

I guess on the bright-side of things, I have the reviews completed now and so they are no longer hanging over my head like a dark cloud as they have been for the past few weeks. If nothing else one lesson that I have learned is that I really need to work on the reviews as I get them in instead of trying to bang them all out at once. While more efficient in some ways doing them all at once it's much more difficult to do as well because of the massive time commitment.

32 Hours Of Year-End Reviews

Nothing I can do to change it except manage and plan a little differently next year or better yet, hope that the new company that is acquiring us decides to get rid of this process and introduce something that makes more sense and takes less time. Basically I boiled it down to the fact that if I spend 3 to 5 minutes per section per employee (not possibly by-the-way) I would still need to spend a minimum of just over 26 hours to get all of the reviews completed.

On the other hand if I actually added some comments and things to help manage growth and highlight where employees are currently at (as I should be doing as a manager) the number of hours increases to 46 hours total. I managed to fall somewhere in the middle and I think that I spent around 32 hours doing reviews over the past 2 days with only a very small amount of them already being completed before I took the work home with me this weekend.

This is a complete joke and proves that the system is broken and should be looked at to improve the way that we review and encourage development within our teams. Basing it off of random corporate values and scores, tied together with goals that employees are pretty much forced to come up with is in my opinion not the correct way to encourage development, ownership or growth. But enough about that, I have wasted my entire weekend taking care of this and I am done talking about it.

Ends Here

That will be the end of the entry for today. I have been on the computer, dialed into our corporate VPN and fighting disconnects and other issues non-stop since early Saturday morning. I am done with being on the computer for the day and its time for me to relax for a little while. This is the first weekend in months that I have not taken the bike out for a ride, I was not able to take Zoey to the pumpkin patch as anticipated and I am actually really bummed about it all.

Photo: Dinner consisted mostly of vegetables and a very small amount of orange chicken from Panda Express. It was ice cold by the time I was able to start eating it. Big picture, I was starving and did not care that it was cold and tasted like crap while leaving a film of grease in my mouth - lovely way to end a very long weekend of nothing-ness.