EVALUATIONS

Here's a poem I wrote when I had to be evaluated.... I've always had a hard time being evaluated, because instead of seeing it as a chance to improve in areas and see where I'm doing O.K. in other areas, I've always seen evaluations as criticism. It's something I have learned to try to correct.

Listening intently for
soundless clues
from administration.
Evaluations deceive!
Reading between the
sheets of dittoed paper
endlessly copied for
needless, necessary information.
Is there relevance in this
continuous drivel we are
supposed to find essential?
The judgment proclaimed
declares whether I am:
- fair or askew -
- right or wrong -
- honorable or improper -
based on one flawed individual’s opinion.
Evaluations suck!