Sometimes you just put in your time
Mar. 13th, 2014 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonJeebus, what a week. I hate going up for promotion, I fucking HATE going up for promotion. I was already working until midnight every night, and now that my primary work is putting together my promo packet I've also been crying every night. It's okay, I'm almost done. Almost done.
Last night at 1:00 I read the writeup of a more junior engineer who's trying to get promoted to "T4"... I am trying to get to "T6"... and, so help me, I told him all the same things that a friendly T8 mentor told me on Tuesday. "Your justification for promo needs to be much stronger, young grasshopper; take out all the waffle words, list bullet points saying exactly why you do this and that from the description of the next level, take more credit for A, B, and C, call out the impact of WHY this thing was important." Gah. So easy to dish out. So hard to take.
I will probably get this promo; it's a strong packet, I totally do a T6 job already, and I have supporters at the right levels. Not even nervous about that. I just hate the process. I kind of wish that everyone who's performing at high levels for their current rank were automatically considered for promo every cycle, and it just happened automatically. No decisions to make, no soul-searching and void-staring.
Last night at 1:00 I read the writeup of a more junior engineer who's trying to get promoted to "T4"... I am trying to get to "T6"... and, so help me, I told him all the same things that a friendly T8 mentor told me on Tuesday. "Your justification for promo needs to be much stronger, young grasshopper; take out all the waffle words, list bullet points saying exactly why you do this and that from the description of the next level, take more credit for A, B, and C, call out the impact of WHY this thing was important." Gah. So easy to dish out. So hard to take.
I will probably get this promo; it's a strong packet, I totally do a T6 job already, and I have supporters at the right levels. Not even nervous about that. I just hate the process. I kind of wish that everyone who's performing at high levels for their current rank were automatically considered for promo every cycle, and it just happened automatically. No decisions to make, no soul-searching and void-staring.
