No great insights tonight. I'm just sitting here, tired.

Worked my 12 hours, got my performance review. I'm fair to middling. In my SQA class from years back, there was a cute mnemonic "verify is doing the job right, validate is doing the right job." Or was it the other way around?

I guess it's not a good mnemonic after all.

Anyhow, my boss had no problems with the quality of my work, but he didn't appreciate my lack of prioritizing and time management. Those of you here who IM me (or even who take note of when the "taer has posted a new JS blog email) will see that I'm on way too late. My self-discipline isn't very good.

Or it is, given that I can drag my sorry, sleepy butt into work without fail.

Anyhow, my output isn't great because I keep missing out on the big picture, I am not doing the right thing at the right time, etc. Relative depressing, even if the final word is "okay. not great, not poor, but okay."

I'm going to shoot the messenger here. This is a management issue, in my eyes. If I'm not getting the big picture, then someone's not telling it to me right. Where I work, there is so much jargon, so much assumed common knowledge and inference that it's amazing that more people aren't doing the job right, but not the right job.

I did tell my manager that I am the sort to up and leave if I don't feel listened to. What he may not understand is that I'm already not feeling listened to.