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I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I went HAM on my most recent one. They’re anonymous but I’m sure my direct manager can tell my writing style. But the place I work for has been in refusing to do any hiring including backfills so now I’m a team of 1 doing what 7 people used to do and I let them know I’m not pleased.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just FYI, they’re not really anonymous. These surveys get reported back to each individual manager with the responses, ratings given, and counts of staff completed; so it is very easy for managers to discern who wrote what.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I figure they aren’t. I didn’t curse or name anyone by name, I just made it pretty clear that the understaffing is job performance at a pretty severe level and that the workload has everyone miserable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the old “lazy, entitled” employee doing the work that was formerly performed by an entire team. I know them well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hence “wageslave.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're anonymous ...

No they are not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You hold the bargaining power of 7 people. You can force changes just by waving the "I can quit anytime" card around

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is bad advice. Do this and your name will go on the Problem List. Now, if you don’t care about getting laid off, go nuts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The guy is already giving honest feedback on "anonymous" surveys... He's probably on that list. At least he could try to improve his situation, and look for a new job at the same time since it's clear they don't respect his efforts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably time to leave at that point....