Comments on: Rate Me, My Friend When my coworker told me he was reading a blog about ACTION values, the first thing I said was, "Does it mention 'Living with the hot ones'?" Imagine my delight when I learned the author of said blog was none other than my fearless friend Jaymin Kessler (who once, in a company meeting before hundreds of people, raised his hand and asked Peter Moore to show us his tattoos). Anyway, count Petroglyph among the studios with a sane review process. I suppose it helps that Petroglyph is formed mainly of the Westwood studio that was laid-off en masse by those electronic artists you mentioned earlier . . . When my coworker told me he was reading a blog about ACTION values, the first thing I said was, “Does it mention ‘Living with the hot ones’?” Imagine my delight when I learned the author of said blog was none other than my fearless friend Jaymin Kessler (who once, in a company meeting before hundreds of people, raised his hand and asked Peter Moore to show us his tattoos). Anyway, count Petroglyph among the studios with a sane review process. I suppose it helps that Petroglyph is formed mainly of the Westwood studio that was laid-off en masse by those electronic artists you mentioned earlier . . .

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By: jaymin kessler/2011/04/16/rate-me-my-friend/#comment-2953 jaymin kessler Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:27:07 +0000 One year, it was decided by somebody that numerical ratings were too mean or something, and so we all got color ratings for each area of our review. Red, Yellow, Pink, Purple, and Blue. I'm pretty sure Red was bad, but nobody knew what order the other colors were. On several items, I got a "P", and to this day I don't know whether that stood for Pink or Purple. One year, it was decided by somebody that numerical ratings were too mean or something, and so we all got color ratings for each area of our review. Red, Yellow, Pink, Purple, and Blue. I’m pretty sure Red was bad, but nobody knew what order the other colors were. On several items, I got a “P”, and to this day I don’t know whether that stood for Pink or Purple.

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By: Joseph Simons (@sigmel)/2011/04/16/rate-me-my-friend/#comment-2935 Joseph Simons (@sigmel) Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:19:31 +0000 Nice post! Dude, I honestly don't remember much during those days, it is all a big blur. But one thing I recall about the process was that there was one more thing they were big on, "Sphere of Influence". The larger your sphere the higher up you should be, of course no details and what "kind" of influence mattered, just that you were influencing lots of people was really important :) Nice post!

Dude, I honestly don’t remember much during those days, it is all a big blur. But one thing I recall about the process was that there was one more thing they were big on, “Sphere of Influence”. The larger your sphere the higher up you should be, of course no details and what “kind” of influence mattered, just that you were influencing lots of people was really important :)

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