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My old employer would 'anonymously' throw those at us too.
Our one supervisor got 6 months of once a week propaganda training because our *tiny* department got overly honest when we hit the, 'I feel senior management is doing a great job' part. No, the 5 million dollar man (CEO) wasn't the best thing ever, the merger idea is dumb and other disloyal thoughts. Subtle questions like 'how long have you worked here' and the *unique survey link* that is not to be shared are subtle hints.
Stop filling out the surveys
My rule of thumb is anything that anything electronic, isn't anonymous. For example, at a prior role, HR stated repeatedly that our yearly surveys were anonymous yet they would send emails directly to individuals admonishing them for not filling them out. Plus many areas, such as mine only had a few people, so they could pretty much guess who said what. And yes, when comments were made, they would make it right back to whoever said them. The only survey I ever had even close to anonymous was years back, and was an old fashioned pen and paper submission y/n form with a small comment area. Even then people would skip the comment area or have a friend fill out because nobody wanted their handwriting noticed. Skip them as much as you can.
Then why didn’t you reply to them, asking how they knew you hadn’t filled out the survey. If it was anonymous.
Have a paper trail of their response.
I just completely ignore any "Surveys", no matter how many times I am reminded that I need to submit. The supervisor will normally say, "We need 100% completion to improve." Yeah Right! Don't fall for that.
Same. Had a nurse manager who would walk around bullying us that we all needed to get our surveys completed. She knew who’d completed completed their survey and who hadn’t…anonymous my butt. I was deviously overjoyed when upper management let her go during Covid. They did her dirty but she was just evil. I considered it karma for the way she treated her nurses.
I just don't take them. I was asked once why I hadn't taken the survey - my answer was "if the survey is annonymous, how do you know I didn't take it?" I strongly believe that they are just used to identify the "troublemakers."
I created my own manager survey with 20 questions on paper. I gave all 20 out and got 19 back. I made 20 columns (for each question) and listed all 19 answers. Handed the completed list back during a staff meeting and discussed each question and the group answers. We picked top 5 issues and brainstormed solutions. Didn't cost our dept any money and most answers were extremely truthful !
That Is when you say the survey said it was was anonymous my responses were to test if it truly is and the company just failed. I have proven that it there is no safe place to say anything about anything. I need to get to my job which I love if there is nothing else.
It's a trap all right. The survey at my employer asks for your position how long you've been at the company and the program you work in. On top of that you have to use the work computer to complete it. I always gave 4 stars until I was in my way out.
They are not anonymous, our manager was super mad only 40% did them, she made us do them again, even though we told her we know they aren't anonymous, she put us on the stop and we did them again and just gave her rave reviews bc we know if we said the truth we'd have a target on our back...in this day and age nothing is truly anonymous....
I just don't do the surverys. I never have and I never will.
Work retaliation is illegal and wrong. If they have a issue with the survey answers you provided then they should focus on what you said was wrong with the company instead of taking it out on you
No survey is ever ever ever anonymous!! We give personal hummu hints that tell it all! Best thing is just put great or opt of out!
Tell me was it hca lol
Don't lie, just refuse to take the survey's.
I wonder if we have the same employer. I started to fill it out then realized my job title is very specific and thought to myself, no way this can be fully anonymous!
Employee surveys are never anonymous someone has to read them and calculate the situation
If you answered via email, they know where it came from. Also, managers can see where they came from. I don't do them ever.
I try to never fill them out as they are never anonymous. At best if there are 10 issues brought up they take the easiest, cheapest and least important, implement it and say they're listening to their employees. Now I've had manages say we have to do the surveys (even standing in the room to make sure we do it and have even seen them writing the anonymous surveys for the tech averse employees. I hope they do good things w/ the info but i'm cautious due to experience.
At my previous employer, the employee surveys were anonymous because they didn’t show the name of the employee. One time my manager directly asked me about my answer and when I asked why she was so confident that it was my response, she said I was the only one in that specific position at that location.
As a leader, it’s disheartening that you would be called out instead of the issue being addressed and positive changes being implemented within the department.
I just took my survey yesterday and gave truthful answers, including some disagree and strongly disagree responses. The last question allows you to type a reply about how you feel the company has improved over the past year. My response was not positive, pointing out the problems that need to be addressed, and adding my name. 😉
They’re not anonymous…just stop doing them. When I found out one of my colleagues was called into administration a week after doing the survey and she was called out for her responses, I stopped doing them altogether. I just kept “forgetting” to do them, they aren’t mandatory and they can’t make them a “condition of employment.”
Document everything, retaliation is not only immoral its illegal.
When I worked at UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital (ran by woke crazy leftists) they would always want us to do the same with the surveys. They 100% read them and know "who is the trouble maker", so we all stopped doing them. We would just make excuses as to why we wouldn't do them, because they micro managed so damn much and used them against us. Don't get me started on the useless AssMee Union we had which were 100% in bed with management.