Performance Evaluation Haiku

For all you corporate drones who either will be writing and/or receiving a Performance Evaluation, I offer for your consideration a way to complete the exercise in a more, um, poetic style:


When you told the boss
To go fuck himself, and how:
Career limiting


Sitting in your cube
Messaging your FaceBook friends
Deadlines? What deadlines?


"How am I doing?"
(Feedback is what you wanted)
"Here is how you blow."


When I asked your boss
Your greatest accomplishment
He began to laugh


3 percent for you!
You are our top performer!
Can't you feel the love?


They say we put the
"fun" in "dysfunctional"
But look at our stock!


Your project was great!
But your boss took the credit.
This is what they do.


Your job is outsourced
to five Bangalore engineers.
Better cost-structure.



And now, your turn, people. Come on, give me a 5-7-5!

15 comments:

  1. End of year bonus:
    Hot chocolate assortment.
    Better than pink slip.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Homage to Office Space:

    Michael Bolton cries.
    Peter gets a promotion.
    HP printer smashed.

    ReplyDelete
  3. You're the only one
    To leave a comment for me
    You must really suck;

    :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. working means nothing
    and i find temporary
    solace in haiku

    ReplyDelete
  5. internet outage,
    for some it is maddening,
    but it gives me hope.

    ReplyDelete
  6. you there fine worker
    how much productive are you
    the bees pay no heed

    ReplyDelete
  7. friday taunts with a
    rotten carrot, monday looms
    with falsified hope

    ReplyDelete
  8. Boss says,
    Must increase your visibility.
    WTF! Long hours moot?

    ReplyDelete
  9. Your self-evaluation is honest,
    so your boss screws you.
    Thanks boss.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Nervous before performance evaluation:
    I don't have a life.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Please give me a big
    raise so I can look at myself
    in the mirror.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Long hours, broken relationship.
    Boss pats my head.
    Is this why I work?

    ReplyDelete
  13. Review quote:
    "Stop and smell the roses."
    Maybe job not so important.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Pat on the head and
    kick in the ass OR kick in
    the head and pat on the ass.

    ReplyDelete

Blog Posts