It's been a loooong week.  Had my performance evaluation at work on Tuesday and it was mediocre.  I mean, not that I was surprised or anything.  I typically have a really hard time the first six-10 months of any job.  I'm not a jump right in there kind of person.  I like to know what I'm dealing with all around me before I can concentrate on the job at hand.  I like to figure out the people before the job because then you know how to change things and how people will react.

I work with a lot of type A folk.  Which is good because they are the detail people, which is good counter to me.  Details bore me, I'm the big picture, long-range goal kinda gal and I like to concentrate on the effect my work will have, not so much the tweensy details like if there is adequate signage to the bathroom.  But, I recognize the importance of having adequate signage and appreciate that there are people around to remind me of that.  But it's just not on my radar at any given time.

So luckily, my end product has been practically fault-free. But they feel I haven't provided the proper amount of feedback to give assurance that I know what I'm doing.  I can work with that.

I'm not sure I did a wise thing though.  There were a couple of things that were either not directly or even indirectly my fault that I got dinged on.  For example, I was responsible for the information to be provided in this memo.  It was information that could not be supplied until the very last minute before it was needed because it was constantly changing.  I sent the info to the next party in the format it needed to be printed in and said that the final copy would be provided at a certain time.  Said and done.  Then I had to leave for a meeting and my co-worker decided to change the format and I didn't have the chance to see it before it was distributed.  So I got dinged for that.  Also for not doing things no one told me to do and that were not on record of having ever being done.  (Because apparently, my mad psychic skills were the reason for my hiring.) Ding! 

I decided not to say anything and let it slide.  In the whole big pic of my job, they were infintesimally small things to pick out, so my defense probably wouldn't have been worth the effort.  But now I have to deal with things like, "make sure you double check that memo!" 

Still, it is a good job and I really like everyone working there.  And I know they like me and want me to succeed at this job.  But I'll be glad to see the weekend!