The Review

I've worked for this company for more than two years, and finally someone decided I need to have a review. This creates a problem when your supervisor is your hubby. He says, "What's for lunch?" and I stop work and fix lunch. He says, "This needs to be mailed." and I stop work and go to the post office. He says, "I need my jeans washed." and I stop work and do laundry. I do all the running around with the daughter or his mother, take care of the car repairs, grocery shopping, vet trips, yard work, housework, go to school, home school the teenager....

Not that I'm complaining. I used to do all this and work in town.

The problem comes when the review form arrives, Hubby prints it, hands it to me, and says, "Here, do your review."

I really hate that.

I argued with him over why I had to do my own review. I actually had to do this at my last place of employment, and I seem to recall that he thought it was stupid. Funny how times change.

Several days passed, he was prompted by the office to get it in. He handed it to me again this evening. I looked it over and said, "Well, if I fill out the review, I won't have anything to say in the employee comments section." "Fine!" Retrieving it from my hand, he stomped off.

A short time later, he returned, dropped it in my lap, and said, "OK, there's your review."

In the categories of Attitude and Teamwork, did I rate very good? outstanding? beyond my wildest expectations? No.... he gave me satisfactory. Oh, well, it could have been improvement needed.