so that happened

It looks as if some member of management in this business unit is going out of their way to make sure I can't get a job within the organization as a whole.

Last year's midyear rating: Fully Meets
Last year's end of year rating: Does not meet
This year's midyear rating: Does not meet, though my business ops rating came up to "meets some."

The reason? Disciplinary action held over from 2015. Disciplinary action that was actionable at midyear 2015 when I got a fully meets, but was not acted upon until end of year when they found out there was going to be a surplus.

Long story short: there was nothing wrong with me at end of year 2015 that wasn't wrong at midyear. The only change was that I moved out of one chain of command into another.

Lesson learned: you must be ready, will and able to work for <i>anyone</i>, irrespective of what you think of them.

Breaking news: Malia Obama is a normal teenager!

I'd link to an article, but so far only the internet equivalent of gossip rags have reported on Malia Obama smoking something that appears to be pot at Lollapalooza. Also, she twerked!

I join the internet outrage at whatever "friend" posted that to the internet or (more likely) sold her out. Child needs better friends!