Product of the Year
May. 29th, 2002 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidOne of the books I worked on a couple of years ago won the company's product of the year award (based on sales above projections). (It's "PreAlgebra," if you must know.)
In previous years, those who were on the team went on a trip to London (corporate headquarters). This year, the decision was that (a) the trip would be delayed to next year, for $ reasons, (b) it would be to the Carribbean, not London, and (c) a limited number of the people who worked on it would get to go.
How was this short list determined? By a vote of all the people on the team. This was bad enough (talk about devisive moves...), but when we went down to vote, we were given a spiel about how this was not about some people working harder or whatever, but a chance to show Corporate Bigwigs our best and brightest, so we should choose according to that criterion. What a load of....
Anyway. The list of people going on the trip came out today. I'm not on it. I'm not surprised, since I was pulled off the project partway through to work on something else. However, at the end of the email, I find that they are, in fact, throwing a bone to the people not chosen for the trip: a $100 gift certificate and an extra 2 personal days.
And I realized that in some ways, I'm much happier with that. I wouldn't turn down a free vacation at the company's expense, by any means. However, I'd prefer London to a beach sort of vacation (not only for the theater, etc, but easier for me to get kosher food, for one thing), and hanging out with cow orkers for a week is ok, but not necessarily the most fun I could imagine. Oh, and though it may be anti-career of me, I have no need to hobnob with bigwigs, particularly. This way I get some extra time, and maybe I'll splurge on something frivolous (or maybe some art?) with the unexpected $ (which is enough to use for something nice, but not so much that I feel I should be responsible and Pay Down the Mortgage or Fund the IRA (no, not the Irish!), or something. Mad money, found money.... :)
In previous years, those who were on the team went on a trip to London (corporate headquarters). This year, the decision was that (a) the trip would be delayed to next year, for $ reasons, (b) it would be to the Carribbean, not London, and (c) a limited number of the people who worked on it would get to go.
How was this short list determined? By a vote of all the people on the team. This was bad enough (talk about devisive moves...), but when we went down to vote, we were given a spiel about how this was not about some people working harder or whatever, but a chance to show Corporate Bigwigs our best and brightest, so we should choose according to that criterion. What a load of....
Anyway. The list of people going on the trip came out today. I'm not on it. I'm not surprised, since I was pulled off the project partway through to work on something else. However, at the end of the email, I find that they are, in fact, throwing a bone to the people not chosen for the trip: a $100 gift certificate and an extra 2 personal days.
And I realized that in some ways, I'm much happier with that. I wouldn't turn down a free vacation at the company's expense, by any means. However, I'd prefer London to a beach sort of vacation (not only for the theater, etc, but easier for me to get kosher food, for one thing), and hanging out with cow orkers for a week is ok, but not necessarily the most fun I could imagine. Oh, and though it may be anti-career of me, I have no need to hobnob with bigwigs, particularly. This way I get some extra time, and maybe I'll splurge on something frivolous (or maybe some art?) with the unexpected $ (which is enough to use for something nice, but not so much that I feel I should be responsible and Pay Down the Mortgage or Fund the IRA (no, not the Irish!), or something. Mad money, found money.... :)