Slow Day at work

holidays are normally slow at the hospital. Today was no different. Most of the non-nessicary personel do not work, and I have a feeling that so of the staff that work on holidays don't know much about the computers so they don't do too much on them. The only eventfl thing that happened during work is that our link to the internet was disrupted twice. And that I have no control over, so it was nothing I was able to fix. I normally try not to take the holidays off so that those with families are able to spend them with them.

IE vrs Firefox

It is interesting how different pages act in the different browsers. It takes more effort to keep everything working in the two main browsers. Now I updated to IE 7, and some things I like about it and others I don't. I don't think that all of the active X controls work with this verson of IE. At times I think about reverting back, but I never do. I have been playing with this counter and it works good in firefox, but not so good in IE. More tweaking is needed.

Annual review

I had my review yesterday, and I am getting a good raise and promotion. Today I looked at the progress of the goals that was set for me as part of this review. As of today I have meet all three of my goals for this year. My manager is fine with this, it allows him to rate me higher in next years review. It sounds like they may try to give me some bigger more complicated projects to try to slow me down.

Goals

We are suppose to submit our self review and goals for this year by the end of the week. I talked to my manager today to get some imput from him before I submitted my goals. the first goal I talked to him about was to get 208 request done this year... I thought it was a easy goal to set and earlier he had said that most of our group should have a goal of 156 for the year. Well, when I talked to him he wanted me to change it back to 156, by the way I should be able to have done by the end of the month. The next goal I said I was going to complete 6 online training courses, and he had me cut it down to 4, that also I should have by the end of the month. It sounds like he has to grade the goals against the rest of the group, and does not want my goals to be ahead of everyone else. Personal goals should be personal goals. They should also be something that takes effort to complete, yet are still attainable. Oh, well I guess I will have a good review next year based on these goals.