Yea, so...

So Tuesday at work I had my annual performance review.  I have to say I wasn't exactly looking forward to it because a) who looks forward to a performance review and b) I had gotten quite the verbal smackdown in the middle of June for my behavior/work/attitude/whatever.  I was hoping that it wouldn't just be a rehashing of all that business, but I couldn't be quite sure.

I would like to take the opportunity right now to also tell you that having to fill out your own self evaluation is both stupid and pointless.  Can you explain to me how my evaluation of myself will have any effect whatsoever on what my boss thinks of me?  Will it change my changes of getting a raise?  Will it change her mind if she thinks I've been slacking in a certain area and I think I haven't?  Will we even go over what I thought of myself?  The answer to all of these questions is no.  Self evaluation, while a good thing to do in your real life, is simply busy work when it comes to your job, in my opinion.

Anyway, I'm happy to report that I did not receive another verbal lashing, and that on the whole they still seem quite taken with me, which is always nice to hear.  

Then I opened my big mouth and said that I was finding myself with a couple of hours a week with not much to do, and that that was perhaps not the best use of my time if I could be doing other stuff to help take the workload/stressload off of some other people.  My boss took it under advisement and said that in the coming months she would see what came up and then see if it was something I'd be interested in.  I figured, fair enough, works for me.

Enter Wednesday morning.  Said boss says to me, "do you have a free minute?  Can you come into my office and shut the door?"  At this my heart immediately sank into my kneecaps and I said, "uhoh."  In my experience the sentence, "can you come in and shut the door?" has never been followed by something good.  Until now.  I shut the door and she offered me a new opportunity and a whole lot more responsibility.  I accepted, and I'm happy to say that it came with a fairly generous raise in my salary which is always welcome.

But seriously, I'm so incredibly tired right now.  That was perhaps the three busiest days of my working life.  Ever.  With no sign of a slow down.  Now, given the alternative of sitting at my desk and organizing things for the 2465754452th time, I'll take being ridiculously busy.  But at the moment I'm still sort of stunned at how quickly things changed, trying to figure out how this new role will fit into my old one, and basically just trying to catch my breath.

It's been a week, I'll tell you that.