grading on the curve

Aug 11, 2010 00:29


[Pre-explanation: my erstwhile employers subscribe to an employee evaluation system of “OKRs”, AKA “Objectives and Key Results”.  Shorn of management-consultant babble this means that at the start of every quarter you write down what your goals are, and then at the end of the quarter you grade yourself on a scale of 0 to 1 of how many of those ( Read more... )

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rmd August 10 2010, 21:51:46 UTC
lj version has bad html.

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dr_memory August 10 2010, 21:57:23 UTC
Weird. Fixed.

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nex0s August 10 2010, 21:56:41 UTC
Cheerios will be back before molars. If we had to wait for molars, Jaeger wouldn't have chomped down an ounce of them today! He's way older and only has 3.5 teeth ;)

They do some gagging and it's totally panic inducing in the parents, but it's how they learn to take bites and chew and swallow.

N.

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missionista August 10 2010, 22:07:10 UTC
In fact, she loves cheerios and eats them all the time.

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nex0s August 10 2010, 22:14:24 UTC
So he's lying in his Quarterly Report?! Ooooo!

N.

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creidylad August 11 2010, 15:55:26 UTC
Not lying... But this is the first example of 'Parents report progress of child differently.' It only gets more extreme from here.

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grading on the curve _nicolai_ August 10 2010, 21:57:03 UTC
It's a slippery slope.

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vvalkyri August 10 2010, 22:20:45 UTC
marvelous :)

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tamidon August 11 2010, 00:15:10 UTC
I will not admit how recently I told an adult, with no children around, that I "had to go potty". It would make you cry

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