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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:01:49 AM EDT
[#1]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just be honest. They dont want honesty... they want everybody is happy and nobody knows of any violations of anything. As far as anonymous... how do you get a reminder email saying you haven't filled it out? |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:03:36 AM EDT
[#2]
 Whites Only - The Office |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:05:21 AM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: of course we now get a e-mail daily on what the questions really mean and how to answer them. Yeah. 75% of the company mis-read those questions. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:05:26 AM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just be honest. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:09:00 AM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. The surveys are anonymous. The extra data is so they can sort responses by manager. The only way you will out yourself is by writing a comment which reveals you.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:11:28 AM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. The surveys are anonymous. The extra data is so they can sort responses by manager. The only way you will out yourself is by writing a comment which reveals you. Not sure if you're a naive manager, vindictive manager, or just learning sarcasm... 
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:13:13 AM EDT
[#7]
Few years ago I worked for the VA as a nurse. One my peers that had been there for years said management would 'take the survey for you if you don't.'
I know for a fact that at least 8 of my coworkers did not take the survey, myself included. It was one those typical bullshit how I feel I am being treated by management etc survey online. Soon, an email came out from nursing admin thanking everyone for taking the survey and they had like a 104% participation rate. We heard management got a bonus for promoting such a positive environment. 
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:13:40 AM EDT
[#8]
We take them every year and I tell the truth to include naming names in the comments sections.
My soldiers were bitching about all the classes they had to take instead of training. I told them to be honest on those surveys and the classes drop considerably. They did, we only 3 schedule this whole year. No mandatory drug or alcohol etc, just normal suicide, SHARP and Resilience. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:14:17 AM EDT
[#9]
I'm not paranoid, I'm awaranoid.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:15:38 AM EDT
[#10]
Tell them you saw your manager flicking their bean at a 7-11.
Or Dont take the survey. Fuckem |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:15:52 AM EDT
[#11]
Anonymous.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:16:07 AM EDT
[#12]
Be a chad.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:16:36 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just be honest. Never worked in corporate America have you? You may keep your job but you’re very unlikely to ever get promoted. Sad truth. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:20:32 AM EDT
[#14]
They are not anonymous. But they can have usefulness. We had a supervisor that was an absolute Cunt to deal with. “Hey I need some gloves, we have none in the supply room.”
“Why” “Cuz I don’t like that patient enough to have their blood on my hands.” “Pssshh, whatever. Here’s a handful.” That level of bitchyness. We (8/10 employees) decided to have us all make the same complaints about her attitude and how shitty it was to deal with her. We all mentioned that we were looking for other jobs. Guess who got pulled into the office and is now wonderful to work for? The new supervisor. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:20:47 AM EDT
[#15]
My stated philosophy was always, "If you don't want to know, don't ask."
Many years of being brutally honest, but polite, have been good for me. Once they figure out that I wasn't kidding, they just stopped asking. 
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:22:50 AM EDT
[#16]
They are NOT anonymous, they are obfuscated.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:22:54 AM EDT
[#17]
The company I worked for up until a couple years ago always did it via paper.
You got a folder with a lot of fill-in-the-dot answers. Each employee got one with their employee id, but that was just a cover sheet that didn't get turned in with the folder. No identifying information on the folder itself. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:27:07 AM EDT
[#18]
The one we use at work actually is completely anonymous.
It's actually pretty slick too. You can split answers by demographics/departments until it will identify someone. I.E. if there's one woman in a department, it will not let you view answers by gender. If there's one guy with 20 years and everyone else is under 5, it will not let you view by years of employment. The problem is most people make themselves known in their answers - these are the same people who bitch about it not being anonymous. "I work in XYZ department, I've worked here for XYZ years doing XYZ and my boss is a fucking retard who bangs his employees". GOOD JOB TODD STAYING FUCKING ANONYMOUS |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:30:17 AM EDT
[#19]
At HP I noticed they mysteriously ended after they trended downward for a couple of years.
Then the layoffs began in earnest.  I do think HP respected the anonymity, but they didn't want to actually hear what we thought. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:33:57 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Another layer of non-anonymity are the 'add your comments' sections. You can expose yourself fairly easy with what you type out...  |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:40:22 AM EDT
[#21]
Had one before that actually seemed like it could be anonymous, then they asked for your department, role, sex, rough age, etc. Basically they would be able to limit it down to a few people with ease. I lied about it, since it wasn't mandatory but strongly encouraged.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:40:47 AM EDT
[#22]
My favorite is when management sends out completion percentages by department asking for participation. As a manager I get % complete for my reports and requests to meet a certain %.
For several years I’ve been submitting neutral responses to all questions for all the reasons shown in this thread. It’s sad/funny that management wonders why participation is low and results are neutral. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:41:56 AM EDT
[#23]
Quoted: It's ironic they say it's anon, but you have to log into the company's VPN to take it, then it ask whos your manager, dept, role, tenure etc. They never turn out well and of course biased in most cases too, jmho. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:41:56 AM EDT
[#24]
We actually have quarterly surveys, plus an annual specifically about our direct manager.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:43:05 AM EDT
[#25]
There is no point of filling out the so called "anonymous" surveys. Even though its done third party the link comes to my company email account. After they tried to fire more than one pilot for speaking the truth in a so called anonymous survey management is shocked no one fills them out anymore. As I tell my copilots that were not in the military, "Lieutenants never have permission to speak freely in front of General officers."
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:43:19 AM EDT
[#26]
I'm so glad we don't do that shit where I work. We have yearly reviews, but those are face-to-face between the department supervisor and the employee. And then those get sent to management for evaluation to see if you get a raise, get some more training, etc. But there's nothing on there about "How do you feel you're doing?", "What would make your job easier?", or any of that bullshit. It's just a review to tell you where you stand, what your strengths and weaknesses are, etc. It's also a place to freely express anything you want to say. No repercussions on any of that, though.....that I've ever seen, anyway.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:43:25 AM EDT
[#27]
When I was in corporate IT we had those same things come out. The entire dept was honest with what we saw as issues. A few weeks passed and we were all called into a meeting to discuss...not the issues that everyone brought up, but the fact that we must not have understood the questions properly.
The first time I was honest but respectful. When we had to basically redo our surveys with both HR and senior management watching (to make sure we didn't have any questions) I was honest and what little respect I did have went right out the fucking window and it showed in my answers |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:43:41 AM EDT
[#28]
My company used to have real anonymous surveys, and then they would send out a wrap up email detailing the results. You could even vote on the top comments and management would address them in the email.
Then the company dropped the ball big time a couple years ago and all employees were affected. After the incident, there was one more anonymous survey, which supposedly the results were so poor, they did not send out a wrap up email. Since then, all "anonymous" surveys require a login with the company email, and they removed the ability to submit or vote on comments. There was also an interesting situation a couple years ago, before the incident. The company was hosting a conference for a significant portion of the company. During one of the main events, you could anonymously submit questions to a webpage and they would show up on the screen behind the presenter. The rest of the audience could vote on the questions, and then the top three questions would be addressed at the end of the presentation. Well, question #2 was extremely critical of the current management strategy, and even though it was on the screen behind them, the presenter skipped over the question and answered a softball question that didn't even make it up there. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:44:21 AM EDT
[#29]
When the State of Florida did 'anonymous' employee surveys the employees had to sit in-between two supervisors, shoulder to shoulder.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:44:55 AM EDT
[#30]
Specialist Crash_Test_Dhimmi found this out with a command climate survey at his first duty assignment.
"Totally anonymous, tell us how you feel! No retribution at all! " Many Panties were bunched that day my friends I tell you |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:47:15 AM EDT
[#31]
For my company's employee engangemnt surveys, the info that is presented to me is anonymous. Every employee has a unique link to the survey, so i'm sure somewhere there's a record of who responded what, but as a manager, I dont know. The only way i know who wrote something is if someone basically tells me who they are in the free text portions. Like if they reference a specific project they were doing, or something like that. Whenever we go over the results with the team. I pull up the report i get as a manager and put it up on the big screen. They see EXACTLY what i see.
Edit: I am not upset for the most part by negative feedback from my team (only bothers me when i get feedback that is completely unrealistic). I WANT them to tell me whats wrong. And tell me before a bi-annual survey. In fact I wish a few folks on my team would talk to me more. I try to initiate, but get minimal feedback sometimes. I promoted from within the same team, and i care about it. My main goal for my Crew is for them to be successful, to get them what they need to be successful. I try to shield them from bullshit as much as possible to let them do what they are awesome at. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:47:36 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: According to my last survey, I'm a transgender native american boomer I'm a lesbian Asian. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:47:58 AM EDT
[#33]
Think it has been a part of my industry for the past 15 or so years ... I’ve never answered them truthfully. While they say they are anonymous, I’m highly doubtful.
I left an old company and went and helped out a few people with a startup. There were about 5 of us that came together on this and each of us had varying roles with our last major corporation. 2 of the 5 were fairly high up in the food chain and always used to say they read every survey that got flagged for a 3 or below. 4’s and 5’s never got read or screened, but the lower scores, and who wrote them, would be sent to direct supervisors. It was up the direct supervisor’s discretion but anyone who was on that list was most likely put on a performance plan and coached out between 6-10 months. True? I don’t know. I have no reason to believe they were lying and see no motivation for them to lie at that time. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:53:43 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Few years ago I worked for the VA as a nurse. One my peers that had been there for years said management would 'take the survey for you if you don't.' I know for a fact that at least 8 of my coworkers did not take the survey, myself included. It was one those typical bullshit how I feel I am being treated by management etc survey online. Soon, an email came out from nursing admin thanking everyone for taking the survey and they had like a 104% participation rate. We heard management got a bonus for promoting such a positive environment. That sounds like typical VA management. They are lying, manipulative POS that only care about their careers, and to hell with the patients they serve. Those that care (actual medical personnel) are just tools to allow them to garner bonuses. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:55:55 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I skipped our anon survey last year. They told me I needed to fill it out “If it’s anon how do you know I haven’t filled it out?”  HR persons response https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/617/650/91a.jpg Ha, I did the exact same thing two years in a row at the last company I worked for. The second year I waited so long they canceled the department "state of the union" meeting because they "didn't have the full participation we are looking for". I was always honest about the answers I gave, and never got petty about anything. I was never called in to talk to anyone, despite it obvious it wasn't anonymous. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:57:07 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just be honest.  At one place we got notices asking us to fill out the completely anonymous satisfaction survey so our company would rank high when the results were reported for multiple companies. One week later I got a second email to fill out my anonymous survey since I hadn't done it yet.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:57:55 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I skipped our anon survey last year. They told me I needed to fill it out “If it’s anon how do you know I haven’t filled it out?” HR persons response https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/617/650/91a.jpg There are plenty of legitimate ways to both track who has responded and keep the response content anonymous. I seriously doubt any of them are ever used, of course, but it's possible. Your HR drone just isn't very good at thinking for itself. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 10:59:32 AM EDT
[#38]
The best thing to do is either not answer, or lie and give them high ratings on everything. We're dealing with this at work now after several millennial new hires answered the survey honestly, bent the survey curve down, and brought corporate down on all our heads.
Based on management's reaction, it wasn't anonymous either. Millennial tears were shed over the special high intensity training that has been implemented. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:08:28 AM EDT
[#39]
I learned the hard way when 45 minutes after I clicked submit I was in the supervisors office explaining my answers.
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:09:25 AM EDT
[#40]
The link also has a 30- character code in it, that is not the same as your coworker's code.
Kharn |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:10:07 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yea, I made that mistake once. After getting results back, my boss dedicated an entire meeting to trying to find out who wrote each comment. At the end of the meeting he says “well it seem that SOME people aren’t very happy here- maybe THOSE people should find another job elsewhere.” Our last questionnaire garnered so few responses from the department, they could not include them in the survey. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Another layer of non-anonymity are the ‘add your comments’ sections. You can expose yourself fairly easy with what you type out... Yea, I made that mistake once. After getting results back, my boss dedicated an entire meeting to trying to find out who wrote each comment. At the end of the meeting he says “well it seem that SOME people aren’t very happy here- maybe THOSE people should find another job elsewhere.” Our last questionnaire garnered so few responses from the department, they could not include them in the survey. You and I must have worked together. Kharn |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:11:29 AM EDT
[#42]
I had to compile "anonymous" stuff from a team of a dozen once. What I wrote was anonymous for real to my boss's boss but they're clear its shared with my boss. All the comments were super negative/accurate. I added positives just so he wouldn't know for sure I wrote something bad about him.
I don't submit anything now because I know people can see them and the volunteer to compile stuff seems like the extra backstabby type as well, though my currency boss has been really great so far. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:14:23 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The CEO told us last year that the scores were low because "we didn't really understand what they were asking". Yeah. 75% of the company mis-read those questions. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: of course we now get a e-mail daily on what the questions really mean and how to answer them. Yeah. 75% of the company mis-read those questions. I worked for your CEO too. Kharn |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:15:30 AM EDT
[#44]
Several years ago, I didn't fill out and return the anonymous "annual employee survey".
Usually I did, but for some reason, tossed this one in the desk and forgot about it. Two of three weeks later, I got a letter reminding me that I had not returned the (anonymous) survey, urging me to fill it out and return it as soon as possible.  |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:15:55 AM EDT
[#45]
Everything is fine, no complaints.
The SOP answer for anything of that sort of fishing trip. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:22:23 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. The surveys are anonymous. The extra data is so they can sort responses by manager. The only way you will out yourself is by writing a comment which reveals you. that is a bunch of bull. Only info they need to sort by manager is to ask me who my manager is. Why do they need my sex, age range, years at facility, department, job position etc? I am the only male, 50-55 years old, 11 years there as an ER nurse. Not hard to figure out who did the survey. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:26:41 AM EDT
[#47]
..your employers care what you think?? Mine doesn't even pretend
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:27:41 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There are plenty of legitimate ways to both track who has responded and keep the response content anonymous. I seriously doubt any of them are ever used, of course, but it's possible. Your HR drone just isn't very good at thinking for itself. Righhttttt  |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:30:47 AM EDT
[#49]
I’ve promoted several supervisors to customer based on the AES findings.
Shame on leadership if they let things like y’all say happen. |
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Posted: 10/5/2020 11:37:14 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just don't fill them out. They are traps. |
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