Performance review went well as per usual. Basically it boiled down to "Keep doing what you're doing" without any particular things they wanted me to improve on. So yay!

Last year I did 4,256 requests, but that was pushing me to my absolute limit. With the bankers discovering I can pretty much give them anything possible in Dealogic because I know the database so well the long/complex requests have mostly fallen to me for the past year or so, hence this year my number was down to 3,300. Plus I consciously slowed down to prevent burnout, but not a word was said about that, so I didn't volunteer it.

I did get confirmation that my colleague who works night shift (barely) with me is not going to be pushed harder to do more, although of course I didn't phrase it that way, just danced around it diplomatically. But now that our Hong Kong researcher is live it's not as much of an issue as it was. So all the way around this new year will likely be better!