Annual Purrformance Review.

It is time to review mum's performance for 2011. It is strange but we have been getting lots of extra treats lately. We can't think why.

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW FOR: MUM
REVIEWED BY: ERIC AND FLYNN

1. Quantity of output: No Paws.
She does help us to blog every day when she is here, here being the operative word. If she didn't keep gallivanting off on holiday she would have received the maximum of Four Paws. We have told her she really needs to improve in this department but things don't look hopeful. We have heard that the Beans already have two cruises booked as well as some short breaks. We seem to remember telling her that this had to improve last year but she has ignored our warnings. If this persists we will have no choice than to award her Two Swats next year.

2. Quality of output: Three Paws.
She does do better here as she takes us on walks around the fields in the hope of getting good photos of us. Also she lets us take our camera so we can show things as we see them. She sometimes takes embarrassing photos of us though and that has prevented her getting Four Paws.

3. Client Pawticipation: One paw.
We have our own email address where we can be contacted, but mum only puts it on show at Christmas so that is not much use. We will tell her we need it on our blog where it can be seen. This deserves two swats but we can be contacted on her email address which is on our profile so maybe we will give her one paw.

4. Pawticipation Part 2: Three and a half paws.
We take place in quite a few competitions and have had some of our own. We are allowed to go to Chatzy when the room is open too so we think we will give her four paws. On second thoughts, we don't want her thinking she is perfect so we will give her three and a half paws.

5. Client Satisfaction: Three paws.
We get quite a few comments every day so we hope we are giving client satisfaction.

6. Overall Rating:
A total of ten and a half paws out of a possible twenty is just not good enough. We expect to see a marked improvement next year.

Annual Purrformance Review.

We have told our mum that it is time for her review. She is a bit worried about it and has been giving us extra treats all week. We won't be bribed though. Well not much, it depends how many treats we get.
Part 1:
Quantity of output: We can't really argue about the quantity, she does help us blog every day. We were going to give her Four Paws for that until we realised she had missed Saturday last week and that is unacceptable so we marked her down to Three Paws. Then we thought of all the lonely days when they deserted us for October and also two weeks in April. They also left us twice for weekend breaks, but to be fair, she did schedule posts for us then. We have to deduct points for April and October but if we take off one for every day that means she will be minus three hundred and eleventy nine points. We don't want to make her too disappointed so we will take off one paw per week so that brings her down to minus Three Paws.
Part2:
Quality of output: Overall it is not too bad as she takes her camera when she takes us for walks in the fields, and she takes lots of indoor photos too. She is often inconsiderate and takes photos of us bathing and even pooping at times. She should realise this is embarassing to us. For that reason we can only give Two Paws.
Part 3:
Client Pawticipation: She does provide means for us to be contacted. We have our own email address and she lets us use hers too. We can also be contacted in the comments. She also got us a Facebook account but didn't have a clue what she was doing, so gave that up as a bad job. We are quite happy about that though because we hear horror stories about Beans spending too much time there instead of helping their kitties blog. We give her Three Paws.
Part4:
Pawticipation (part 2): We do get to go to all the birthday pawties and Gotcha Days and enter some competitions. We haven't had a competition for a long time and she needs to do something about that. We give her Two Paws which we think is very generous all things considered.
Part 5:
Client satisfaction: We can only go by what we read in the comments and it seems that overall what we post is enjoyed. We give her Three Paws for that.
Part 6:
Overall rating, comments and suggestions:
We have worked out her average and we are afraid to say it is 1.4 Paws. This is just not good enough. We feel there is much room for improvement and it is the first section which let her down. We suggest she stops taking all her holidays and stays home with us. Without those holidays her average would have been 2.6, which while still nmot good, would have been a little above medium. We will allow her one weekend break without deducting points..
She can also improve by being more considerate in her choice of photo.

We hope she takes good note of all her failings as we expect much better of her next time.