Oh boy, it’s half-year corporate performance review season. This is my favorite time period – second only to annual reviews. A sequel sing-along is definitely in order. Here we go once again to the Andy Williams classic It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (this time with further revised lyrics):
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
With accomplishment gathering
And everyone blathering about their careers
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
It’s the second happiest season of all
With employees competing team work starts receding
Then slows to a crawl
It’s the second happiest season of all
There’ll be out-standers coasting
Some scapegoats for toasting
And quarreling high and low
There’ll be contrary stories
And task inventories
Though Full-Year was not long ago
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
There’ll be much BS flowing
And horns will be blowing to out-sound all peers
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
There’ll be prognosticating
Out-of-cycle ratings
Comparisons fast to slow
There’ll be whipping post stories
And tales that are gory from
Half-Years of long long ago
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
There’ll be much BS flowing
And horns will be blowing to out-sound all peers
There’s a corporate ladder to climb
Though your pay raise is less than a dime
It’s the second most wonderful time of the year
