While at work today, I had the task of collecting material for my annual appraisal. The idea behind these is to make sure you are doing your job properly and not spending your days messing about playing solitaire (and to identify further development needs etc etc…)
I now have a portfolio crammed full of stuff, which proves I do a little bit more than simply feeding the hamsters who power the network servers by running in their wheels.
Last year, the cover sheet for my folder looked like this
This time, I am under struck instructions NOT to include a cover sheet again.
Guess I won’t be using this then…

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Rich
December 17, 2008 - 8:19 pmKeeping the hamsters fed is an important job.