Nonculture

“They don’t care because they stay paid anyway – “

            Flava Flav, 911 Is A Joke, Fear of a Black Planet

Got my yearly review today.  For those of you not in corporate culture, it’s a 1 on 1 meeting where your manager assesses your progress/performance.  These are bullshit because the manager is told to pare down the numbers, while at the same time it’s known that you did a kickass job.  As usual I am an “above average” employee, which is what everyone gets because the manager cannot give out the real points.  I expressed my displeasure with the numbers today, not because I don’t know the situation, but because in years to come, I’ll need those badass numbers.  The way it was explained to me is that, basically, there is no promotion from within and the numbers will never matter.

Now, that’s refreshing honesty; reviews are admittedly useless and not even tied to raises.  Raises, by the way, probably won’t happen despite the company securing a billion in contracts in just the last quarter.  I love my fucking job.