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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Every company I've worked at sends these surveys out and says they are "anonymous". I never respond to them.

  1. If they are truly anonymous, why does my boss personally call me out to respond to them? I know it may track if you have submitted the survey. If it has that capability, then it can track you.

  2. I don't want a "moral boosting" pizza party. Give me more time off or more pay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Recently at a company town hall, "please respond the anonymous employee satisfaction survey."

My boss a couple of weeks later, "HR says they need more surveys from our group. Please encourage your teams to fill them out."

Yeah, completely anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I respond to all of them with brutal honestly. My most recent one was along the lines of

"A major topic of the town hall meeting was the push to get [sales number] by the end of the year. We did the same thing last year and I got a 2% raise. What is my incentive to make you money if my raises don't even match inflation?"

Even if it's anonymous, my boss knows it's me. This way I can bring it up in my review as a callback as opposed to trying to awkwardly work it in to the conversation

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If a "raise" doesn't even cover inflation, it's not a raise.

Edit: The best raises I've ever received were from leaving a job to a new job

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yes agreed. I make about 2% less than what I was hired at adjusted for inflation after 3 years despite doing a lot more work. If I don't get a 10% raise, I'll be calling back the recruiter who has been trying to poach me for 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

LOL I like it, take it one step further too: "...and you'll be hearing about this shit during my performance review!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I did something similar to this but I misremembered the figure. So I got to watch my boss fiddle and fumble for the courage to say 'actually it was only an X% raise, not Y%'

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

And why is the url they send always "website.com/survey-name/[random hash]"? Why are there trackers on this totally anonymous, fo sho, survey link?