Scenes from the modern office

Ok, so like many of you, it's time for my annual performance review at work. There are so many ridiculous aspects to this process that I could fill up several posts. For example, employees do not "get reviewed" in the sense that our bosses tell us what we did well and what needs improvement. Instead, the employee writes his own evaluation, which is then combined by one's boss with up to three other evaluations from secondary sources, usually people who supervised you on other projects. The final, combined evaluation circulates through up to eight layers of management before it is returned to you for final review. Promotions are then discussed by the higher-ups, and all is finally said and done usually around the end of May. Honestly, it's a 6 month process. By this time, however, we are hard at work on our mid-year review.
Anyway. I just wanted to point out that at my company, we don't refer to the process as "review." We call it "performance management." And the software we use to facilitate the process is called the "performance management system" (aka PMS). So, while we're going through the process, we are often "working with PMS." PMS plays a huge role in the process. Documents are created by PMS. Sometimes we need help with our PMS, or are surprised by something PMS has done.

I don't know. I thought it was funny.