Degrees's Journal: Annual PAF is due

PAF = Performance Appraisal Form (i.e., job review)

Here are statistics for the year (boring, I expect)

• Of 176 hours in April 2003 I worked 199.4
  • 187.4 hours were week days.
  • 12.0 hours were week-ends.

• Of 176 hours in May I worked 188.9
  • 177.9 hours were week days.
  • 11.0 hours were week-ends.

• Of 168 hours in June I worked 181.5
  • 174.8 hours were week days.
  • 6.7 hours were week-ends.

• Of 184 hours in July I worked 204.9
  • 186.7 hours were week days.
  • 18.2 hours were week-ends.

• Of 168 hours in August I worked 209.9
  • 183.7 hours were week days.
  • 26.2 hours were week-ends.

• Of 176 hours in September I worked 199.8
  • 182.6 hours were week days.
  • 17.2 hours were week-ends.

• Of 184 hours in October I worked 204.9
  • 185.9 hours were week days.
  • 19.0 hours were week-ends.

• Of 160 hours in November I worked 164.7
  • 161.9 hours were week days.
  • 2.8 hours were week-ends.

• Of 184 hours in December I worked 225.4
  • 213.0 hours were week days.
  • 12.4 hours were week-ends.

• Of 176 hours in January 2004 I worked 182.8
  • 178.0 hours were week days.
  • 4.8 hours were week-ends.

• Of 160 hours in February I worked 204.0
  • 180.5 hours were week days.
  • 23.5 hours were week-ends.

• Of 184 hours in March I worked 204.8
  • 202.7 hours were week days.
  • 2.1 hours were week-ends.

Being a programmer at heart, I wrote some programs that pop up every six minutes (1/10th hour) and ask where the time went. The programs push the data into my GroupWise calendar (where everyone can see, as I granted 'public' read access to my calendar - just proxy in, voila.) So every week, I print my calendar out to a disk file, and my programs have their way with the data. This becomes a data entry file for our mainframe based TRAK billing system - except that Work Orders don't go into TRAK normally, they have to enter via Magic Help Desk. I've got a pretty good routine going where the data I put into my time tracking program can also be put into Magic, so everything reconciles nicely. And in the end, I can output time logs up the ass.

ACS has a 'Sunshine Principle': you are what you report.

I can report stuff like this:

04/28/03 1.0 hours 0100 3035 0100 01 [DP SERVER ADMIN SERVER ADMINISTRATION ] 50171 ( Working on Jeff C*****'s network slowdown issue. Although I do get him to set his port to 10 Mbps Half-Duplex, there is other weirdness going on. ) =WO=

04/28/03 0.4 hours 0100 3035 0100 01 [DP SERVER ADMIN SERVER ADMINISTRATION ] 50171 ( DS Repairs on CA5 - went from 24 errors to 4. Called Jeff C***** back, things are working well now. ) =WO=

04/28/03 0.5 hours 0100 3068 1200 01 [HSM IMPLEMENTATION GENERAL ACT ] ( Joe A****** and I create a DP_TEST PoINT volume. Joe creates a LaserFiche database )

04/28/03 0.2 hours 0100 3000 1DEG 53 [DP Admin non-billable ________________________] ( Recording where my time went. )

04/28/03 0.1 hours 0100 3037 0100 01 [DP GROUPWISE GROUPWISE ] 50121 ( Mail to Mary D***** for follow up - is it working correctly now? ) =WO=

04/28/03 1.7 hours 2300 3030 0102 01 [ELECTIONS DESKTOP SUPT DESKTOP SUPPORT CONT. ] 50151 ( Looking at rights for the Extra1.Elections.A*****.A*****.T***** - found that the OU has granted all rights to all user. Mail to Cindy. ) =WO=

04/28/03 0.1 hours 6000 3030 0102 01 [RETIREMENT DESKTOP SUPT DESKTOP SUPPORT CONT. ] 50036 ( Check MRTG of the Retirement WAN link - much less traffic today than all of last month. ) =WO=

04/28/03 1.0 hours 0100 3035 0100 01 [DP SERVER ADMIN SERVER ADMINISTRATION ] ( Catching up on email - status reports, list servers, oh my! NW 5.1 SP 5 has a time sync boo-boo. )

04/29/03 0.7 hours 0100 3035 0100 01 [DP SERVER ADMIN SERVER ADMINISTRATION ] ( Log in, do email. Brad comes by for morning status. He tells me about the Retirement WAN speed WO )

04/29/03 0.1 hours 0100 3037 0100 01 [DP GROUPWISE GROUPWISE ] 50121 ( Email to Mary and Patti re: GW distribution list visibility. ) =WO=

If I am what I report, I should get a raise for being superman. Of course, I expect the opposite, as management is, well, ... the /. fortune file recently said it best: as much as some people like to find fault, you'd think there was a reward for it.

My wife isn't really keen on the idea of me buying a Papa Murphy's store - but I sure would like to quit my current job.

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Wow

[Degrees]

That is a lot of money. I think we have a UPS store - used to be Mailboxes, Etc. (If so, it is right next to the Papa Murphy's that might be going up for sale).

But I don't think we have a PostNet - at least I haven't heard of such a thing yet. I'll check it out.