Work-Related Musings

Hey Y'all!

Seems to be quite a while since i have posted here. Sorry about that!

Well, a few weeks back i had my yearly evaluation at work. This is my third one, as I have now been at my job for three years.
My evaluation marks directly affect the percentage pay raise that i get for the coming work year, as well as the performance-based bonus that i receive.

I finally managed to discover what my marks were like. Well, actually, i already knew that my marks on the Eval were fairly high, but i was unaware of how exactly that affected my pay raise and bonus. THOSE are the figures that i finally'figured out' (pun intended).

Okay. Without giving away too much personal financial detail over my blog, let me just say this; Wow!
Apparently, i got the second highest possible mark. To my knowledge, nobody has ever gotten that high before at my workplace. So, i now co-share a record here , although unofficially since nobody else is supposed to know what other people at work got for marks. And I say co-share because i am knowing that one other person, one whom i work with on an almost daily basis, got the same mark as me on this year's Eval.
Although the pay-raise involved is only percentage based, and therefore is not very large at all, still, it is a lot more than i have gotten in any other evaluations, and hey! , a little something is better than nothing, right?

As for the bonus - again, i do not want to give away any financial details of my life. It is not a huge amount of money. That being said, if the bonus was out of ten dollars, with a ten being the highest possible denomination that one could get, and if the bonuses paid out were only paid in ones (thus, there were only 10 possible bonus amounts to get), then i would have gotten 9 bucks. Again, as far as i am aware, nobody has EVER gotten more than eight bucks from the Eval Bonus. And that has only happened once in the last three or four years. And i, and a workmate of mine, both now hold the record (unofficially) of nine bucks for a bonus. Wa-hoo!

So, it just goes to show me. As goofy and frustrating as my job can be...and no matter how many times i complain that i never get noticed, that too many people have their heads up their own butts to have any idea about the rest of us employees...yet it just goes to prove that as long as the Right Person or two have their eyes on you, and can see your passion for the job and your efforts and your level of competence, and as long as God is for you and you do all that you do as if you were working for God, then good things can still happen.

My faith has been restored. And i continue to pray for some good changes to happen in my workplace. If THIS can happen, most unexpectedly, then anything good Can and Should be expected.