✦ AUGHTY ✦ The Professor 6 PERFORMANCE REVIEW. MANAGER Your goal is to become the known specialist people seek out for advice on Windows automation. Like a professor. Someone people come to. I wonder how many people care to automate Windows in our company Which professor? Which university? Which field? Do I go back to his university and investigate? Study which professors he respected? Practise imitating them until it lands well? How do I know when the imitation is convincing? Is there a measurable endpoint? This is ludicrous. Maxwell ? Feynman ? Einstein ? AUGHTY How do I measure whether I've achieved that? MANAGER It's more of a… you'll know it when you get there. He couldn't name the professor either. There is no professor — there is an aura. I was told to become an aura. Official criterion: "Seen by various teams as a consultation expert." I was. In six years of reviews. In writing. Apparently that's a different professor.
My skip confirmed those goals were not SMART. It was an appeasement, it never transitioned into anything new and functional, and never made me function differently either. He could have known since it didn't work for Chamberlain either. In my defense, I did immigrate to Amerika, maybe that's why he thought it would make a difference in my case.