Another year, another period of the Employee Evaluation Report season has come to a close.

For those of you that have been around a bit, or know the State Department system, each year, employees have to submit a review of their own performance, which their boss then also adds to, then you submit into your personnel file. These are a big deal because all tenure and promotion decision are based off of them. Considering this year is my first look at tenure, it was an important one.

What made this year even more interesting is employees were allowed to use AI to help write their EER. It’s already a weird experience writing about how wonderful you are as an employee, but now we get an AI computer to do it for us? Strange times indeed. If anything, I found it useful to taking what I had written, and helping it flow a bit better, or find alternatives words to use in certain situations, but it was still weird.

Thankfully, the season is now behind us and we can cross our fingers to a favorable tenure decision in the Fall. With some of the changes the current administration has made to promotions and tenure based on the removal of DEIA as a core precept of our performance, it’s anyone’s guess as to what could happen. Here’s hoping for the best. -Nick