workaday Wednesday
Apr. 30th, 2025 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatSoooo... my boss is going to be on site next week for a "mandatory training." This is what I've been told about this event so far:
*In-person attendance is required. They're flying people in for this thing.
*Three full days, lunch provided.
*It's only for people who have direct reports (aka managers), but you can't attend it with anyone you report to (no hierarchical mingling!). There will be "several" trainings throughout the year to accommodate that requirement.
*It's a training about the new performance review system. (Maybe? This was implied, but vague.)
I HAVE QUESTIONS. And since speculating on what the higher-ups are doing is a time-honored company pastime**, I am making three possible guesses!
1. The meeting is about something different, and the company isn't telling attendees.
2. The meeting is about something different, and my boss isn't telling me.
3. It really is what my boss says it is, and the why is just 'corporate logic.'
[**FUN FACT: Two CEOs ago, the CEO used to do these video messages for everyone, and at the end of each message there was a song. Sort of like a 'this is what I'm listening to this week' kind of thing. HR had to ask them to stop including any songs, because people were reading too much into the song choices, lol.]
*In-person attendance is required. They're flying people in for this thing.
*Three full days, lunch provided.
*It's only for people who have direct reports (aka managers), but you can't attend it with anyone you report to (no hierarchical mingling!). There will be "several" trainings throughout the year to accommodate that requirement.
*It's a training about the new performance review system. (Maybe? This was implied, but vague.)
I HAVE QUESTIONS. And since speculating on what the higher-ups are doing is a time-honored company pastime**, I am making three possible guesses!
1. The meeting is about something different, and the company isn't telling attendees.
2. The meeting is about something different, and my boss isn't telling me.
3. It really is what my boss says it is, and the why is just 'corporate logic.'
[**FUN FACT: Two CEOs ago, the CEO used to do these video messages for everyone, and at the end of each message there was a song. Sort of like a 'this is what I'm listening to this week' kind of thing. HR had to ask them to stop including any songs, because people were reading too much into the song choices, lol.]
