Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

At the start of this week the head of human resources told me that the evaluations for the personnel under me that I submitted have to be shown to them. That explains the need for their signature at the bottom of the second page, despite the "confidential" label at the top of the first page.

So it's confidential from other people except me the evaluator, the one person being evaluated and the HR head.

Eventually I had to decide to change her ratings to something somewhat higher before showing it to her.

It was dishonest, but it will cause less hassle in the long run, because what I expected to happen happened.

There was only one three out of five rating out of the two pages of questions, and it was about fostering camaraderie among her fellow staff members. She said it should be higher.

I put my foot down and said I couldn't do that because it was something that I don't see her practice.

And I even went so far as to tell her that if I were completely honest it should be a 1 not a 3, but that I relented.

It also seemed to escape her attention that my overall rating was still a five, and that I wrote down there that she should be kept at the position, and I didn't choose replace.

I had to emphasize for her that I don't mean I NEVER see her practice it. I had to write a footnote in the comments section that maybe the item should be stricken out because I don't seem to be in the best position to judge. That placated her enough to sign.

And I did finally get it off my chest that sometimes she puts me on the spot by telling me hours before about a scheduled meeting, when I have decided it's one of the days that I won't go to school early.

We'll see if that will be repeated in the future now, and if any on-the-spot meeting announcements will now be prefaced with "sir I was just told about this right now, but..."

@@ The student council president tried to put one over me by sneaking the car show into her proposed allocation of the council's entire year's budget for the approval of the dean.

I would not have recommended it, but it seems there is a hidden agenda to get the car show on the table.

Good thing the dean caught it, and stands behind my decision not to approve that activity.

Now they need to show previous years' funding as being consistent.

Session 2697 NOW has something more vital to write about, but it's too late. Class dismissed.