[Ghoulish Delight]

Wow. I just received the results of my yearly review. Not only was it a positive review, I received a raise that we well beyond (read: double) what I was anticipating. It was a bigger raise even than when I received a promotion last year. I was hired at a bit below market rate and have continued to lag behind in the ensuing years. This year the powers that be decided I deserved to be brought up above the curve. That means that I received not only the raise that HR determines based on the result so of the review, but extra percentage that's at the discretion of my department heads. There is only a limited amount of discretionary bonus that each department has to spread around, and from what I've gathered, what they gave me is the lion's share (if not all of) that.

This of course puts pressure on me to continue to deserve that, but it also is quite the motivation to actually seek out the opportunities to show that I do. I'm kinda giddy right now.

Oh, and if I did indeed get as big a chunk of the bonus money as I think, I'm going to be doing a lot of deflecting of, "Are you as pissed about your raise as I am?" that people like to do. I hate that.