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Have you ever been praised at work? I've only ever been praised once, and it was the entire staff who got praised. I'm not sulking about it or anything, I was just wondering, that's all.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I often get praised for doing stuff that I see as really simple duh type stuff. This doesn't really count as is just praise for having a brain and being able to use it.
Last week one of the IT team sent my boss an email praising my patience and helpfulness in a recent crisis. I was almost touched, GO ME!

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(and where's my pay rise?)

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Praise? PRAISE? You're having a f***ing laugh. You don't get praise in Unix Admin, you know. If nothing's crashed for a while and everything is running pretty smoothly, you are rewarded with complete silence. Otherwise (which is most of the time), you get the world and its grandma shouting at you. It's great. Honestly it is......

― lol p xx, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Wicked, i once got given a fag by my floor manager (awiite Kev geeezz?) cuz i turned out 'nuff multi packs of sainsbury's own brand crisps y'all.

― Sans Fah, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, once or twice, just for my google and searching determination, and my lack of effort but getting things done approach.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to get tha props for being hard working == can psychtoisize himself into working 20 hours days at the end of a week of which 4 hours work is done.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

It was year end evaluation time last week and my manager gave me an 'excellent' rating and praised my work etc. Then she said raises this year would not be given out on the basis of performance.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Friday I was in my most high-powered meeting since I started at UCL three years ago. The most important person there started getting angry and shouting, and I pretty much dealt with it, calming things down and coming to sensible agreements instead, and I got some very good praise for this afterwards from one of my superiors.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I once got praised for noticing that a note was fraudulent.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

C flat?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Around here, praise is doled out sparingly, and in utterances like, "well, good, you didn't fuck that up."

(Am highly competent and well-regarded by most people, just no-one I work for. Blergh).

― luna.c (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been damned with faint praise for the last seven years. I want to make HATAZ, already.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

A while ago after a particularly unproductive month of sitting and staring at newsgroups and blogs all day every day I was praised for getting stuff done efficiently. I think it was sincere but I probably ruined it by just staring at them dumbfounded trying to work out whether they were sarcastic or not. I was especially surprised because this was for Access database frontends and I always suspect that other people think that I just click three buttons and it does it all automatically for me. (Which would probably be true compared to proper jobs, but still.)

Nothing recently, but they did renew my contract so hopefully they don't entirely hate me. Yet.

― r (reb), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i was getting lots of "oohs" and "ahs" from the staff in the general office today cos our enrolment software has a new search thing which actually works which was nice, however i had nothing to do with the programming of it or anything, but there you go...

also people are equally impressed when i do dead simple things that take five minutes or sweat over horrendously mindbending access queries for two days, but thems the breaks

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I got called "brilliant" today by my new employers, though it's the kind of brilliant that actually means "he's picked it up really quickly and is competent after a surprisingly short time".

When I did a spec project report on a kids tv series for some potential employers, they showered me with compliments. Only my old company fucking things up on the project have prevented me from getting what would be my ideal job.

On the other side of the coin, I've been given an official written warning in one job and been let go after my probation period in another. Swings and roundabouts.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

every once in a really great while someone writes a nice letter to the editor about something I've written. not usually, though

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, because i go to public school. ha ha ha.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I got praised for doing a job which no one else wanted to do but needed to be done. 3 months later I was made redundant whilst on longterm sick leave due to stress.

I work hard but I don't look like, walk, talk or share any interest with Them. Next time I'll just get a McJob. Or hope I get reincarnated as a privileged Surrey schoolboy.

But, like the Murphy's, I'm not bitter... heheh

― Android (Android Elvis), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin, I think you should've just twatted that bloke one, but well done anyway. In fact, well done everybody.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Believe it or not, I've been cited as a 'calming' influence

― dave q, Thursday, 17 October 2002 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

PJ, I do sometimes take the more aggressive approach, but in this case there was too great a gap between our statuses for this to be wise, and to be honest even if I had the kind of stature to do so, the calming talk and coming to an agreement was what was required anyway, in this case - the meeting was about reaching agreements on things to do, and it's what we managed in the end.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Believe it or not, I've been cited as a 'calming' influence

I would love to see this office.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a feeling that to enter into this office might cause the collapse of multiple singularities.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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