One of the funnest parts of working at a big company is having to write up "objectives", derived from those above us on the food chain. So we get handed these "corporate-speak buzzword bingo" sentences from the directors, and we have to find clever ways to shoehorn the actual work we trench soldiers will be doing, into that format. It's a lot like this "Dilbert" cartoon.

On top of that, the group I'm currently in within the company has like 19 female managers, and 3 male ones. This gyno-centricity manifests in the performance reviews being oriented around "people" (how many presentations did you give? how many "coffee chats" did you have?), with "oh, uh, did you actually get anything done?" being sort of a foot note. This doesn't jive well with my very introverted "roll up the sleeves and get shit done" personality.

Right now, I'm trying to figure out if "stand up an Elasticsearch 7.x cluster" is more of a "Drive Operational Excellence", or "Leverage Capabilities" kind of thing. Or should it perhaps even be considered a "Delivery of High Value"? Decisions, decisions!