My MOT - Annual Review

Not as dramatic as you might think.

My annual career review which was meant to be with our CTO. Was meant to be with my Line Manager but he's leaving so there is little point.

We decided not to bother with it. The main reason being that we both know the situation in the company is changing soon and there is no point planning as we don't know how the department will be arranged in 6 months time.

Skiing mark 2 - Fun in France

Val d Isere with my friends from Ware

started cold minus 20 plus
got nice and sunny by the end of the week

the skiing was good

alot of kids and crazyness.

Stained glass

I finally finished my first stained glass panel last thursday. It took me all of last term and half of this one. It's all glass from the offcuts pile so it could be a bit of found art (and cheap!).

here

next I think I'll try a couple of easier ones that I can add to the glass doors in my flat.

Rumours and Hidden Agendas

We have been pitching for alot of new work recently and hardly a week goes by with out a new piece of work being announced.

Normally in advertising you getting about a 20% turnover of clients for one reason or another. Now we have got a couple of big new clients over the past couple of months to cover the loss but we are still driving on despite the countrywide recession.

This growth is bigger than we can really cope with. The word from someone further up the food chain than me is that we are driving up the value of the company so the board will get bigger performance bonuses as part of the deal that they arranged to

Ah so that's why we are so busy.

and I mean crazy busy and its going to get worst. I great time to get experience on lots of different projects but also its not likely to do anybodies social life any favours.

This is on top the rumours currently going around about who is leaving.
We lost one of our Flash developers last week. most of us found out at the weekend via his facebook status! The rumour list is now a hand full of the designers, one head of department and my line manager! He hasn't said anything to me yet so we will see, but it might explain why both he and my department boss are doing my review rather than just him

Pep rally

so today we had a little company get together about the focus of the company for the coming year and on from there.

It was all about giving 5% more please to the company and working smart.

It was also about the coming together of tech and creative

part of the presentation was from the head guys in the creative department
it was noted my boss didn't give any part of the presentation.

I wonder why...