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Thursday has arrived and we're heading for the weekend. Tonight the cat goes back to the vet for a second distemper shot, so that'll be fun, but otherwise, it's a quiet day.
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Hopkins has annual reviews in Sept, and since I've been there six months, I got one. I had filled out my self assessment a few weeks ago--I hate doing those things. Do you toot your own horn or do you answer conservatively. I answered pretty conservatively, marking myself as meets expectations with a handful of exceeds. My reasoning was that I had a lot still to learn, and I didn't want to come off as arrogant first review.
So, I hopped on my zoom call with my manager yesterday and she shares here screen. And next to my name there's a bubble with my results. "Highly Exceeds Expectations." I...was not aware that there was something above Exceeds. But no, apparently Hopkins' ratings go up to 5. Managers are not encouraged to use it much, but it's there. And my manager felt like I deserved that. She called it a "unicorn review" and said that she had to get it approved by the director of the call center and HR because they just don't give them out.
Then she went through the review, and I had 4's or 5's in every category, except the one about going to the staff meetings. It's an auto Meets, since you either go or not. But every single other category was exceeds or higher.
At the end, as I'm sitting there stunned, she went on to tell me how grateful and thrilled they are to have me, and that they all think I'm awesome and amazing, and that I can never leave them.
It was very flattering, and I did indeed buy unicorn Minnie Ears to celebrate.
Not long after that, the posting for the dude who got promoted came out, and I took a deep breath, reminded myself that I was a goddamn unicorn, and applied. Then, I spent the rest of the day being anxious and a little giddy. Jess looked up the job, and found a posting from last year that had a salary range of $52-67k a year. Average was a little more than I make now, but I'm on the high end of the pay scale, so I'd probably get at least 60, maybe a bit more.
We'll see!
Okay, time for me to start getting myself together for the day. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Hopkins has annual reviews in Sept, and since I've been there six months, I got one. I had filled out my self assessment a few weeks ago--I hate doing those things. Do you toot your own horn or do you answer conservatively. I answered pretty conservatively, marking myself as meets expectations with a handful of exceeds. My reasoning was that I had a lot still to learn, and I didn't want to come off as arrogant first review.
So, I hopped on my zoom call with my manager yesterday and she shares here screen. And next to my name there's a bubble with my results. "Highly Exceeds Expectations." I...was not aware that there was something above Exceeds. But no, apparently Hopkins' ratings go up to 5. Managers are not encouraged to use it much, but it's there. And my manager felt like I deserved that. She called it a "unicorn review" and said that she had to get it approved by the director of the call center and HR because they just don't give them out.
Then she went through the review, and I had 4's or 5's in every category, except the one about going to the staff meetings. It's an auto Meets, since you either go or not. But every single other category was exceeds or higher.
At the end, as I'm sitting there stunned, she went on to tell me how grateful and thrilled they are to have me, and that they all think I'm awesome and amazing, and that I can never leave them.
It was very flattering, and I did indeed buy unicorn Minnie Ears to celebrate.
Not long after that, the posting for the dude who got promoted came out, and I took a deep breath, reminded myself that I was a goddamn unicorn, and applied. Then, I spent the rest of the day being anxious and a little giddy. Jess looked up the job, and found a posting from last year that had a salary range of $52-67k a year. Average was a little more than I make now, but I'm on the high end of the pay scale, so I'd probably get at least 60, maybe a bit more.
We'll see!
Okay, time for me to start getting myself together for the day. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
