Hello Monks,

I am sure most of you have had to submit a report detailing
what you have been doing to earn your pay.

<rant>
I always have felt that such reports are only required
when your boss is too stupid and/or lazy to understand what you do, let
alone remember what they asked you to do in the first place!
</rant>

I have a tendency to be too humble in these reports.
For example:

What I did
I wrote a simple LWP Perl script based on poorly written example
from a vendor.

What I would usually say.
I customized example LWP Perl script to interface to vendors web-site.

<tongue in cheek>
Now here's my question. What would shameless buzzword monger write?

The Url accessed begins with https, so could I claim to be
an expert on SSL certificate base encryption/decryption?

When I rewrote the vendor's script I move bits of it into
my own Perl module and broke the data submission and data retrieval
parts of the vendor's script in to two different command-line
tools that interface to our database.

What would a shameless self-promoter say about that?

I had to install Perl modules and run make. Does that make
me a systems adminstartor?

I had to create a table on a Oracle database. Does that make me
Larry Ellison?

</tongue in cheek>

Please fell free to have fun with your replies.
Thanks

In reply to (OT)Employee Status Reports or Shameless self-promoting by LameNerd

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