We have an employee evaluation program here at the state. Every 6 months, we pick the goals that we wish to be evaluated on for the next 6 months. Then at the end of the 6 months, we evaluate ourselves and then pick some more 6 month goals. We have had this program for several years and during that time, no one has ever given themselves a bad evaluation. Go figure.

Now, the absurdity of this program would be funny were it not for several things. First of all, the state paid good money to purchase this program. Then, there is the waste of money on the people who were hired full time to run this program. Then, there is the waste of time by the staff who have to set and evaluate their goals. But probably the saddest part of this program is that the upper management was stupid enough to buy into it in the first place.