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In-laws, promo committee, party thinks
Sep. 28th, 2016 11:33 pmMy in-laws are visiting tomorrow... sitting around resting now, after some cleaning and tidying aimed at letting them know we do NOT live like raccoons all the time (though during the course of this tidying, I noticed that most of our kitchen ceiling bulbs are burned out: sigh, raccoon time).
It's been a funny week; a little under the weather, with lots of working from home and reading promotion packets. Seventeen wannabe T4s are going up for promotion and I got to read all their stories; and second-guess their managers; and read promo committee feedback for cases that had been turned down before, and decide whether the prior committees' concerns had been addressed. It was a ton of reading, mostly eye-searingly boring but with a few interesting stories mixed in. In at least one case, the manager completely misrepresented what the last committee had said; accident, poor memory or a lie? In another case I got the story of a person stuck for many years as a low-level engineer in a tiny office in a faraway country. In a third, the male peer of a female engineer put in a review that had nothing to say about her specific projects but a lot to say about how she LOOKED disengaged and didn't contribute enough to shared team grungework... based on his sitting next to her. Only that last one really rouses me to action: the committee will not be paying attention to that review, except for its sheer inappropriateness.
Other strangeness has occurred. I should have posted about the party I attended on Friday, when I ran into a newish friend and also ran into Four-Leaf, and it was no more than typically party-awkward (catty daydreams of intimidating her with my abs while being scantily dressed were for naught, alas; it was too cold, I wore my new Nomads tunic). The best part of the party, though, was talking to a guy who, like me, is in tech and looking hard at the early-retirement option. Except not; he wants to keep working, and earn capital to shift to his friends' art, while also spending time on the boards of various nonprofits like... the Boston Circus Guild.
Oh.
Like, yeah, there's a post-tech-retirement option that could utilize my management skills and basic knowledge about circus while probably being meaningful. Why'd I never think of that before? It wouldn't need to be BCG; there are other organizations.
It's been a funny week; a little under the weather, with lots of working from home and reading promotion packets. Seventeen wannabe T4s are going up for promotion and I got to read all their stories; and second-guess their managers; and read promo committee feedback for cases that had been turned down before, and decide whether the prior committees' concerns had been addressed. It was a ton of reading, mostly eye-searingly boring but with a few interesting stories mixed in. In at least one case, the manager completely misrepresented what the last committee had said; accident, poor memory or a lie? In another case I got the story of a person stuck for many years as a low-level engineer in a tiny office in a faraway country. In a third, the male peer of a female engineer put in a review that had nothing to say about her specific projects but a lot to say about how she LOOKED disengaged and didn't contribute enough to shared team grungework... based on his sitting next to her. Only that last one really rouses me to action: the committee will not be paying attention to that review, except for its sheer inappropriateness.
Other strangeness has occurred. I should have posted about the party I attended on Friday, when I ran into a newish friend and also ran into Four-Leaf, and it was no more than typically party-awkward (catty daydreams of intimidating her with my abs while being scantily dressed were for naught, alas; it was too cold, I wore my new Nomads tunic). The best part of the party, though, was talking to a guy who, like me, is in tech and looking hard at the early-retirement option. Except not; he wants to keep working, and earn capital to shift to his friends' art, while also spending time on the boards of various nonprofits like... the Boston Circus Guild.
Oh.
Like, yeah, there's a post-tech-retirement option that could utilize my management skills and basic knowledge about circus while probably being meaningful. Why'd I never think of that before? It wouldn't need to be BCG; there are other organizations.
