One FTE – impressions of a corporate life

Tag: performance

  • all I want for Christmas

    original publish date: 2nd January, 2010

    decades on …

    Can’t believe I publicly debunked Santa.

    All those 5-year old OneFTE fans. Their Christmases ruined, forever.

    transcript

    Santa: 95% of toys delivered before sunrise, 98% accuracy on naughty/nice lists again this year, and 8% more toys survived the first day. Anyone take any learnings from this year?

    Elf #1: Rudolph needs a succession plan.

    Elf #2: Maybe we should extend our outsourcing to parents beyond the existing procurement and logistics?

  • performance review time

    original publish date: 12th December, 2009

    decades on …

    Ahh, the first comic. I wish I remembered why this was top of mind enough to be the ‘launch comic’.

    I’m not sure the last 17 years (17!) have seen any marked improvement in how performance reviews are done.

    At least there are fewer of us walking around with printouts.

    Progress, right?

    transcript

    Project Manager: No, your annoying interference on my project can not be recognised as a “significant contribution”.
    FTE: What if I stopped?
    Closing caption: Performance review time. Let the achievement padding begin.