Annual appraisals at the day job today. As noted the other day, I was feeling extremely anxious about this, perhaps at least partly because my overall mental health hasn't been the best lately, and also I'm keenly aware that I've been quite bored at said day job — though trying not to let it show!
As a little bit in the back of my mind suspected it would, everything went absolutely fine. So that's that anxiety over and done with for another year. I'm glad. But I still hate this sort of thing; it feels like being back at school, and that kinda sucks. I guess it's a necessary evil of sorts, and it's something that happens in pretty much every place of work in my experience… I just don't like that feeling of being "judged". Still, at least it's not as harsh as teaching observations where a "satisfactory" performance was literally not considered to be… well, satisfactory.
The upside of the appraisal process is that it leads to pay rises in the new year, and that's happening. I don't know how much or exactly when yet — or, indeed, even if I'll be there by the new year, as I've discussed recently, but that remains to be seen! — but it's happening. Which is good.
I'm also likely to be changing my working hours along with the rest of my team; there are some terrible roadworks on, like, the only major road that leads to our place of work, and starting an hour earlier in the morning means we can miss the traffic that builds up by the time of our normal start. So, assuming HR don't complain, very soon we'll all be working from 7.30 until 4.30. I'm not relishing the idea of the early start, but the early finish will be pleasant; it'll feel like there's much more of the evening free to enjoy when I get home, which will (hopefully) outweigh the annoyance of getting up at an ungodly hour of a morning.
Now all that stress has passed for another year, I think it's time to go and have a lie down and hopefully enjoy a peaceful sleep!
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