Feedback Gatherer Gifts

Technical Performance Ranking, Consumer Satisfaction Survey, and Word on the Street.

Feedback should be sought for genuine reasons, not because you want compliments. . .

'Here's another one that'll make you blow your stack.'

"Mrs. Berg calls my book report a finely crafted debut and she looks forward to my next effort."

Should not have put that suggestion in the suggestion box.'

"Let me put it this way: I'm hitting 'Unlike' and 'Unhire.'"

'Hunting and gathering doesn't sound very interesting, so I have decided to become a consultant.'

"Are you going to ask for feedback every time you cook a meal?"

"Bob wait, let's do the survey first! Sir, on a scale of 1, poor, to 10, excellent, how would you rate our chase today?"

The 24-Hour Celebrities Doing Something Stupid Channel.

"It's time for your performance review where I damn you with faint praise."

Giving feedback is a complex process.

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

'Please, Ma'am — I'm running out of paper!'

Constructive Criticism 50c.

'How dare they make these kind of suggestions?!'

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

'Negotiating skills need fine tuning.'

"When you grow up would you rather be a Hunter or Gatherer?"

'The customers' suggestions make a lot of sense. I say, let's hire the customers and fire the staff!'

Suggestion box, one for suggestions and one for 'clean' suggestions.

"Oh, its just a fun fur that my husband got me."

"Facts are good, but we need all the rumors, gossip, and speculation to fully understand the situation."

The Before-You-Know It-It'll-Be-Obsolete Computer Company

"Just got back from the client meeting and great news. . . your work isn't dead. It's beaten senseless and run over by a dump truck...but still very much alive."

"...I have the oddest 'earliest memory' and I wanted to share it. It's just as wekkm I guess. Knowing some man secretly attended my first birthday party has caused me to question my parentage all these years....Especially since Mother Park made me promise not to tell Father that the potted plant was acually J. Edgar Hoover."

"I had half a date last weekend."

'Nothing like some tea and symphony.'

GPC negotiators will only take on 'merited criticism'.

'I'm keen on precise statistics as the next person...'

"He's still working on how to give appropriate feedback."

Constructive Criticism Area.

'Newton's fourth law - physicists congregate periodically in obscure European cities to have their picture taken, and then they quickly disperse.

'As a career goal, I'd like to work in government, get the goods on someone, and write a tell-all book.'