business

Two days of work left this week, and then I'm off to do the family thing. So naturally work is getting busy as I try to finish a few items on the To Do List before going, and making sure that my cow-orkers are sufficiently armed with documentation and vendors' phone numbers so they can deal with stuff in my absence. It's not like I really *want* the data center to burn down while I'm not there, but all the same I also want to be missed.

Part of the "culture" where I work is the pinnacale of the favoritism-foodchain is to be perceived as "an individual contributor". Oh yay. I am so vacillating between wanting to try and be "career-minded" about my job, and just sticking it out until I get my five years in and am vesting in the pension plan. I am so not on the the "A" list, and that sort of thing never used to bother me. But the cold, hard reality of the situation is that I'm never going to advance financially at even the rate of inflation where I am. There's an extremely outside shot that I might get a promotion, (sys admin II to sys admin III or some such) but I doubt it. Annual reviews are currently being written, ours to be revealed next week.

Something to look forward to, I suppose.