marcicat | workaday Wednesday

I’ll try to keep the work drama to a minimum in honor of — as Miss Piggy would say — “the blessed day of Christmas.” But a quick update on the workplace: they love goals, right? So the company as a whole started the year with a list of FIVE things that were supposed to be the keystones, or goalposts, or whatever corporate jargon was in use at the time.

Here’s our progress so far as I see it:

#1 – reply hazy try again
(This one was about numbers, so I don’t really know, but my impression with those is that they always try to say ‘we’re doing well enough so you’re not fired, but not so well that you’re getting a bonus.’)

#2 – ask again later
(This one boiled down to “leaders lead,” which I thought was very ‘Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ of them, but last week I mentioned it at a meeting and the leader of our team had forgotten that this was even on the list? So I’m going with a solid question mark.)

#3 & #4 – signs point to yes???
(These ones were pretty vague, kinda marketing and HR stuff, so I feel like they were included so we could have a few automatic wins. But hey, a win’s a win.)

#5 – outlook not so good
(Oh, #5. #5 is our shiny new computer system, set to launch in January. It’s one of those things you have to laugh about because the alternative is horrible sobbing and questioning what in the world has been happening for the last ELEVEN months that so much is being crammed into December.)

[ETA: I had to wiki Magic 8-Ball to find out what answers it has — I had no idea there were actually 20 different responses you could get!]

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