I know most of us have witnessed brown nosing at EM, but lately, in my group, it’s been epic.
After DW sent that nonsensical video announcing the survey results to us all, my supervisor & manager held a discussion specific to our group’s responses (so much for anonymous). Apparently, they could see all the comments from people in their group, but no identifying information. Needless to say, some responses were easy to identify.
In this meeting we were asked to review the areas we scored low, and come up with tangible solutions. Not only did most people disagree with the low responses, they couldn’t understand how anyone saw the company as anything but inclusive, collaborative, and innovative even though the results were specifically from our group.
Many clutched their pearls, and dished out the BS pretty thick. It was so cringe worthy, I almost laughed. I was both horrified and impressed at the lengths they were willing to go in order to lift up management and support the “all is well” facade. It is very sad that we have come to this.
The company is asking us to come up with ideas and solutions for improvement based on the survey results. The crazy thing is, they already have all that information. In the survey comments (and in many other ways throughout the years), we have relayed what wasn’t working and ideas on what can be done to improve. They just aren’t listening and they do not care.
What a waste of time, money and energy.