Joe's graduation was great, he sat in the front row with all who were graduating with honors! The party afterwards was really nice at a winery/bed&breakfast very elegant place, Cathy and Steve went all out, even the wine bottle labels had Joe's pic on them...Mom and Dad were there and Joanne Jayjack, plus the rest of the crew! It was fun.
Congrats Joe. You Rock. But not as hard as this guy:
In Red Deer, Alberta, in April, Jesse Maggrah, 20, listening through earphones to heavy-metal music while walking on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, was hit from behind by a train moving at about 30 mph, but survived. In his hospital bed (broken ribs, punctured lung, other injuries), Maggrah said he remembers the immediate aftermath: "I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.'" "Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me, and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them." [Edmonton Sun, 4-18-06]
I just masticated on some Ramen Noodles, then thought I would check in. Joe's graduation was very nice, and there was a good Mother's Day brunch yesterday for all the moms still there.
And I'm pretty sure the Metal Gods enjoy Joe's work, too.
The Macedonian word for chewing gum is mastika. Interesting, no?
On Saturday night, Scott and Iwere driving to a party and we saw two post-coital dogs stuck together. I made him drive around the block twice so Icould get a better look. I didn't know that could happen and I've certainly never seen it. Scott said it was quite common but Ididn't believe him, so I did a itter research and I guess it's not at all unusual. It is true -You learn something new everyday!
Yes, but you were the tallest graduate in the front row. You win. And you took a call on your cell phone during the ceremony. And your girlfriend almost got kicked out for waltzing around the "graduate-only" area just to get a good pic of you. That's better than all that summa cum laude business.
Dear P Rose, There may have been a few consessions, I dunno...but I was really looking at the good lookin dogs coming up from the concessions...but I saved myself for the winery food which was GREAT! If I owned the place (the dome) I would sell food, it's a 2-3 hour event.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
This is my first day back at work (well, I had an all-day conference in Atlantis yesterday) and I'm off to a meeting in a couple minutes, but thanks for all your kind words re Joe's graduation. Yes , we called him from the bleachers when we got bored so we could woo-hoo him again and he took the call. Congrats to Caitlin - or should I say, three cheers? MATH? Mary, where did you go wrong? Smart girl.
The drinks didn't taste like geritol but I guess that's one explanation for the curious fact that no-one got any buzz even after a night of drinking at your bar.
Groveled and worked like a slave daily. Actually, since we are a nonprofit I have to wait to see how the end of year turns out before I know my real raise. We always get them retroactively. But, I'm pretty sure it won't be amazing. P
I just had my mid-year review. We have a very formalized process. I am scored on all sorts of"critical competencies" such as teamwork, communication, financial acumen,...All my day to day job responsibilities are outlined and I have to report on how I am performing against these. I also have 5 performance goals, usually projects, that I tell the world I will accomplish throughout the course of the year. I then spend the rest of the year documenting why forces outside my control make attainment of these stretch goals impossible. Finally I have 3 developmental goals, things I will do to enhance myself professionally.
This is just the opening line of one of my goals:
Have more collaboration between JDC and the C&CE Division through cross-divisional, cross-functional teams charged with optimizing the incentive spend of the C&CE Division resulting in programs that maximize enterprise SVA. These teams will do the following during 2006:
I then go on to list all the things I will do to accomplish this goal.
I estimate I spend about 3 solid days a year on this. Everyone at Deere is required to do this. 21,000 employees times 3 days equals 63,000 days spent on this each year. Assuming a business year of 260 days, Deere spends 242 years, every year on performance management (I scored very high on financial acumen). However, since I am shameless supporter of current popular thinking, I will be glad to tell you that this does lead to aligned high performance teamwork (our current hottest buzzwords)
That sounds very much like my reviews. We have "Core Competencies" that we are scored on and measured against. We also draft a "performance contract" for the year in which we set our goals. I (to the chagrin of my superiors) refuse to list anything that can be done in the year as a goal as I am always afraid that something is going to go terribly wrong and I sue them and they pull out my Performance Contract and say to the jury - "Look - he was a horrible employee. He didn't even accomplish all of his listed goals. And it seems to be a problem - year after year he failed to meet expectations". I think they want you to list "stretch goals" just so they have this ammo on any employee that they have.
Actually I didn't eat the Hot beefs. I have a client who can carbon-date and so I wanted to see how old that crap you call beef that you serve actually is. And I needed two because, while carbon dating doesn't really require a large sample, it takes two of your sandwiches to get past the "Insuficient Sample" prompt.
Holy cow - I take back every whine I ever whined about my self-assessmant (filled out in about 1/2 hour and handwritten) and review, where everyone tells me what I'm good at and then, every once in a while Fr. Dan yells out, "You're good, Cathy Jayjack!" That is the extent of my reviews. If JDeere just told its management to occasionally shout out, "You're good, John Doe!" and once in a while, "Get you lazy ass in gear, Joe Smith!" they could save a lot of money and a forest or two. What's bothersome is that people get paid lots of money to make up these non-productive, cynicism-promoting managemnent strategies. By the way, Jim, good jibber-jabber.
I just had my annual review, also. I'm Excellent, excellent, excellent (checked boxes), so my supervisor was totally impressed the whole 15 minutes she actually observed me working this year. I also had to give myself a grade for one of my classes, so I gave myself an A (duh). I think I'll give Ryan an annual review on his husband performance this year just to give him something to be exasperated about.
I had a patient fill out a survey recently and in the comment section she said I was friendly, knowledgeable and would like to see me as her physician again. But on the front she gave straight 1's indicating a poor rank for everything. If we don't have enough surveys we sometimes fill out a few for ourselves. We usually see the people with the clipboard in their hands so we are prone to handing out more narcotics during survey week. I have to review my nurses as well. I noted that one refrains from picking her nose during meetings as a positive attribute.
That must be JoJo or Monica with their new 3 acres to mow!!! You guys need a Deere! Emily, the comment stating "you will miss" that student, was that a male or female? JoJo, are there any male nurses at your clinic? If they don't pick their nose, do they grab their crotch?
In order to recommend the correct lawn care solution for you I need to know a few things. Are there many obstacles in your yard, is your terrain flat, rolling or hilly, do you need to remove snow, are there other needs such as tilling, hauling, grading, etc. finally, would you be interested in any finance solutions?
Today is our 33rd anniversary! We're going to shop for a treadmill, go to the less expensive 5:00 movie ("Thank You For Smoking") and to dinner at the Greek Islands where we have a gift certificate (Thanks, Caitlin). We'll probably be home by 10:30. We're not old or anything.
Joe J. just got his final grades and he managed to hoist his GPA to just over the "cum laude" line, so congrats, Joe! You belonged in that group after all, besides being the tallest in the front row, taking a call, and almost having your girlfriend kicked out. You're excellent.
Hey Jim, The terrain is flat but with lots of trees. We probably won't use it for snow removal. Yes, we will need financing as this house is not sold. Are they cheaper at the end of summer?
Woo-Hoo! We just had a staff meeting wherein we decided that we're declaring a meeting moratorium for the whole month of July. No meetings, nohow. No committee meetings, no Pastoral Council, no Finance Council, no liturgical ministers, no RCIA/RCIC team, no regional Faith Formation Council, no city priests/DRE's, no regional DRE's (even if they have one I'm not going) no nothin'.
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how does it feel to be a part of the liberal media conspiracy?
Shut up Bill OReilly. You are not welcome here. You or your friend Rush.
Joe's graduation was great, he sat in the front row with all who were graduating with honors! The party afterwards was really nice at a winery/bed&breakfast very elegant place, Cathy and Steve went all out, even the wine bottle labels had Joe's pic on them...Mom and Dad were there and Joanne Jayjack, plus the rest of the crew! It was fun.
Yeah, Joe. If you'd only gone to college closer to me. I'd have gone.
Joe what honors did you receive?
p
Congrats Joe. You Rock. But not as hard as this guy:
In Red Deer, Alberta, in April, Jesse Maggrah, 20, listening through earphones to heavy-metal music while walking on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, was hit from behind by a train moving at about 30 mph, but survived. In his hospital bed (broken ribs, punctured lung, other injuries), Maggrah said he remembers the immediate aftermath: "I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.'" "Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me, and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them." [Edmonton Sun, 4-18-06]
What's all the quiet for? Are you all meditating or levitating or masticating something?
p
I just masticated on some Ramen Noodles, then thought I would check in. Joe's graduation was very nice, and there was a good Mother's Day brunch yesterday for all the moms still there.
And I'm pretty sure the Metal Gods enjoy Joe's work, too.
The Macedonian word for chewing gum is mastika. Interesting, no?
On Saturday night, Scott and Iwere driving to a party and we saw two post-coital dogs stuck together. I made him drive around the block twice so Icould get a better look. I didn't know that could happen and I've certainly never seen it. Scott said it was quite common but Ididn't believe him, so I did a itter research and I guess it's not at all unusual. It is true -You learn something new everyday!
itter = little
oh, i thought itter = litter
just what did this research entail? did you drive around for a couple days looking for dogs stuck together?
Yes, but you were the tallest graduate in the front row. You win. And you took a call on your cell phone during the ceremony. And your girlfriend almost got kicked out for waltzing around the "graduate-only" area just to get a good pic of you. That's better than all that summa cum laude business.
You took a cell phone call??!
Ellen said they had consessions during the ceremony....that's really weird.
Congrats Joe we thought about you. Your name even came up at a Mothers day lunch with Joe's family. They were all truly impressed with your new job.
Monica and Joe
MoJo> perhaps that should be your moniker, monicer.
Dear P Rose, There may have been a few consessions, I dunno...but I was really looking at the good lookin dogs coming up from the concessions...but I saved myself for the winery food which was GREAT! If I owned the place (the dome) I would sell food, it's a 2-3 hour event.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
Mike and I went to the Honors Grad. ceremony at Marian today...I'm still in shock...Caitlin won (one of 2) department awards in MATH! I'm going back to check her I.D. from birth! Very proud of her.
Congrats to Caitlin!
Did she win 3 awards or just one - my math is a little hazy?
This is my first day back at work (well, I had an all-day conference in Atlantis yesterday) and I'm off to a meeting in a couple minutes, but thanks for all your kind words re Joe's graduation. Yes , we called him from the bleachers when we got bored so we could woo-hoo him again and he took the call. Congrats to Caitlin - or should I say, three cheers? MATH? Mary, where did you go wrong? Smart girl.
Atlantis = Atlantic, IA. Too bad. Atlantis sounds much more interesting.
one the best for what? loud mouth little punks
everybody in your class should use their "trained to kill" skills on loud mouth punks at the reunion. That would solve a lot of problems.
The drinks didn't taste like geritol but I guess that's one explanation for the curious fact that no-one got any buzz even after a night of drinking at your bar.
Tom- It's almost noon-can you whip out a couple hot beef sandwiches? I'll pick up.
I just had my review. I am great.
I had orinetation at Target last night, their emplyee motto is "To be the best compant EVER." I thouhgt that was a little funny.
Mom, did you find my contacts??????
Ellen - we lost your contacts. They were in a little tiny paper bag and I think they might have gotten thrown away. We re-ordered today. Sorry.
I might be able to purchase a special sandwich with my raise.
P
Groveled and worked like a slave daily.
Actually, since we are a nonprofit I have to wait to see how the end of year turns out before I know my real raise. We always get them retroactively. But, I'm pretty sure it won't be amazing.
P
Probably is. We are dependent on tuition dollars, so yes.
I just had my mid-year review. We have a very formalized process. I am scored on all sorts of"critical competencies" such as teamwork, communication, financial acumen,...All my day to day job responsibilities are outlined and I have to report on how I am performing against these. I also have 5 performance goals, usually projects, that I tell the world I will accomplish throughout the course of the year. I then spend the rest of the year documenting why forces outside my control make attainment of these stretch goals impossible. Finally I have 3 developmental goals, things I will do to enhance myself professionally.
This is just the opening line of one of my goals:
Have more collaboration between JDC and the C&CE Division through
cross-divisional, cross-functional teams charged with optimizing the
incentive spend of the C&CE Division resulting in programs that maximize enterprise SVA. These teams will do the following during 2006:
I then go on to list all the things I will do to accomplish this goal.
I estimate I spend about 3 solid days a year on this. Everyone at Deere is required to do this. 21,000 employees times 3 days equals 63,000 days spent on this each year. Assuming a business year of 260 days, Deere spends 242 years, every year on performance management (I scored very high on financial acumen). However, since I am shameless supporter of current popular thinking, I will be glad to tell you that this does lead to aligned high performance teamwork (our current hottest buzzwords)
I am doing great also.
Jim -
That sounds very much like my reviews. We have "Core Competencies" that we are scored on and measured against. We also draft a "performance contract" for the year in which we set our goals. I (to the chagrin of my superiors) refuse to list anything that can be done in the year as a goal as I am always afraid that something is going to go terribly wrong and I sue them and they pull out my Performance Contract and say to the jury - "Look - he was a horrible employee. He didn't even accomplish all of his listed goals. And it seems to be a problem - year after year he failed to meet expectations". I think they want you to list "stretch goals" just so they have this ammo on any employee that they have.
Correction - I refuse to list anything on my performance contract that can not be acomplished in the year.
Actually I didn't eat the Hot beefs. I have a client who can carbon-date and so I wanted to see how old that crap you call beef that you serve actually is. And I needed two because, while carbon dating doesn't really require a large sample, it takes two of your sandwiches to get past the "Insuficient Sample" prompt.
I have all this too, but we also have a "Hamline Promise" goal, and a "Commitment to Diversity" goal.
Holy cow - I take back every whine I ever whined about my self-assessmant (filled out in about 1/2 hour and handwritten) and review, where everyone tells me what I'm good at and then, every once in a while Fr. Dan yells out, "You're good, Cathy Jayjack!" That is the extent of my reviews. If JDeere just told its management to occasionally shout out, "You're good, John Doe!" and once in a while, "Get you lazy ass in gear, Joe Smith!" they could save a lot of money and a forest or two. What's bothersome is that people get paid lots of money to make up these non-productive, cynicism-promoting managemnent strategies. By the way, Jim, good jibber-jabber.
I guess we have a Mission Statement, but nobody can find it.
We get reviewed by our students twice a year. Here are some of the comments I received:
The course is great but the material is nonsense, it's more like a history class.
The Teacher is great. Too bad she is leaving us.
The teacher is OK, but her grading system is a disaster. We all have lower grades with her.
The class is very interesting because the teacher made it that way.
She is a great teacher. I wish her teach me next year.
Teacher Emily has great knowledge of this subject and she is very good teacher.
It's a pity she's leaving.
This course doesn't give me better knowledge.
This teacher is the best in the world because she really knows how to learn us.
Too much homework.
Too much tests and quizzes.
The stories are too difficult and I don't like the questions at the end of the story.
The classes are interesting, the teaher teaches good and she would miss me a lot, but I hope that she would come and teach us again.
She gives too much homework.
The classes are never boring.
I really like the class. It's interesting and well structured and has a relaxed environment.
Not the type of literature I find inspiring.
This is difficult course. You must study and do homework to succeed, but it is useful for my future.
The teacher is great, she really inspires me to study.
Just goes to prove: you can please some of the people some of the time.
I just had my annual review, also. I'm Excellent, excellent, excellent (checked boxes), so my supervisor was totally impressed the whole 15 minutes she actually observed me working this year. I also had to give myself a grade for one of my classes, so I gave myself an A (duh). I think I'll give Ryan an annual review on his husband performance this year just to give him something to be exasperated about.
I can't wait to make up some "stretch goals" for Ryan.
I had a patient fill out a survey recently and in the comment section she said I was friendly, knowledgeable and would like to see me as her physician again. But on the front she gave straight 1's indicating a poor rank for everything. If we don't have enough surveys we sometimes fill out a few for ourselves. We usually see the people with the clipboard in their hands so we are prone to handing out more narcotics during survey week. I have to review my nurses as well. I noted that one refrains from picking her nose during meetings as a positive attribute.
Some nurses have positive attributes
jibber-jabber is one of my more highly rated critical competencies
My annual review said I was excellent.
Monica
Hey Mr. John Deere,
How big a lawn tractor does one need for three and half acres?
That must be JoJo or Monica with their new 3 acres to mow!!! You guys need a Deere!
Emily, the comment stating "you will miss" that student, was that a male or female?
JoJo, are there any male nurses at your clinic? If they don't pick their nose, do they grab their crotch?
Dear anonymous,
In order to recommend the correct lawn care solution for you I need to know a few things. Are there many obstacles in your yard, is your terrain flat, rolling or hilly, do you need to remove snow, are there other needs such as tilling, hauling, grading, etc. finally, would you be interested in any finance solutions?
Monica - did you buy a new house?!
Hey Monica...put the website on the blog so everyone can see how cool your new house is! Love it! :-)
That's funny.
No it's not.
i find it quite amusing.
and the winner of the Air Guitar championships is:
Fatima Hoang
http://www.usairguitar.com/rockness.html
I wish I could have a new Subaru 7-passenger Tribeca. If I won the lottery, I'd get one. Sigh.
Today is our 33rd anniversary! We're going to shop for a treadmill, go to the less expensive 5:00 movie ("Thank You For Smoking") and to dinner at the Greek Islands where we have a gift certificate (Thanks, Caitlin). We'll probably be home by 10:30. We're not old or anything.
Joe J. just got his final grades and he managed to hoist his GPA to just over the "cum laude" line, so congrats, Joe! You belonged in that group after all, besides being the tallest in the front row, taking a call, and almost having your girlfriend kicked out. You're excellent.
Hey Jim, The terrain is flat but with lots of trees. We probably won't use it for snow removal. Yes, we will need financing as this house is not sold. Are they cheaper at the end of summer?
Monica
Will somebody please e-mail grace's addess to ed.straub@bp.com? I need to mail her some gas cards.
Woo-Hoo! We just had a staff meeting wherein we decided that we're declaring a meeting moratorium for the whole month of July. No meetings, nohow. No committee meetings, no Pastoral Council, no Finance Council, no liturgical ministers, no RCIA/RCIC team, no regional Faith Formation Council, no city priests/DRE's, no regional DRE's (even if they have one I'm not going) no nothin'.
Did you say, "Whoop-dey-poopy-doo?"
I don't say poopie in front of the boss.
I am glad that you have boundaries...potty mouth. :-)
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