I'm tenured, multiple roles in 30 years. I finally made it to a director level. I always assumed based on the views and the way I can break down my associate engagement survey, but it truly was anonymous. Until today. I was on the CPO call and just realized they tie it all back to where we are for our annual performance reviews. Which means they know exactly who we are exactly how he answered exactly what our performance for you was and exactly what the survey said. They know everything. I've been a lifelonger of. It's a legit discreet anonymous survey. It's not quit taking it.
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@14t it is literally attached to the AIN, there is nothing anonymous about it. Any survey that cannot be forwarded is traced. Believe that.
@e7 ask your leader to show you the results so you can see exactly what they see and prove it's anonymous
@a7 everyone has a public ip address. The company would just need to start matching the logged IP address of these comments with the logged IP address that matches users who use remote devices such as laptops and cellphones to log onto the corporate network.
My fear is that Humana leaders, directors on down, now see their very own employees that report to them, as those they were their (the leader’s) enemy.
Now, how in the world can there possibly be a healthy leader to employee relationship if there is instead an adversarial relationship?! How does that work, I would really like to know.
@e7 Totally agree with.
I wish “leaders” (e.g., directors, associate directors, managers) would stop lying to us. Or make us have to prove you are lying to us.
We really do want to respect you, not just give dutiful respect to your title, but rather true respect for you as our leaders.
But to be respected, we need to trust you and your word. But you continually prove yourselves to be untrustworthy.
I think in your minds, you think us employees are just being grumbling, disgruntled knit pickers as to your authority, having the audacity to challenge you. But really it is about trust.
Please try to step back and ask yourself, “Is maybe the problem with me? Have I forgotten the reason why I wanted to lead people in the first place? Have I now grown to put the company and those above me BEFORE those in my trusted charge and reliance? Have I lost my sense of compassion; that which makes me human?”
@e5 amazing to me how many people claim to be in leadership roles on this page. If true, it just proves Humana has far too many leaders. The survey is tied to your AIN. They know exactly who submits what. Don't be fooled.
What do you mean 'they tie it to where you are'? Do you mean your city, your address? I am a director and I have never seen a location tied to responses.
@dq - 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 agree!
That is the whole problem with Humana leadership, is they don’t respect their employees enough to have simple open conversations but rather use so called anonymous surveys and then make (fallible) assumptions on who on their team may or may not have said what.
Simply ludicrous and poor leadership, if you can even call that leadership.
@dg Here is the problem with that.
I am the type of person that will not say something in a survey as I think that is the cowards way. But instead will speak up on team calls and in a respectful tone and manner say something when a leader on the call is clearly saying something that is not within the bounds of professional leadership.
So, anyone’s on those calls, in theory, could almost use my words verbatim in the comments of a survey.
Therefore, based on what you just said, Humana should ban those surveys. Because it could cause someone like me from wrongfully being targeted as leaders make presumptions on whom “they think” said what on a survey.
On surveys, I always just select all 10’s. Why do I do that? Because I fundamentally do not agree with them and think they have built in flaws. Similar to the same as statistics and censuses have flaws.
That proves nothing. They could have just read comments and inferred who it is. On many teams it's not hard to spot the disgruntled employee who's chomping at the bit to provide details in the comments of surveys.
@cm But at this point who really cares whether “secretly” someone knows who we are or not, under the guise of anonymity.
If a company tried to sue someone for comments they made on a site that claims that “free speech” comments made on here are anonymous, it would be a very uphill battle for that company. (The only exception being so long as no physical threats are made. That is a big no no.)
But regarding to peaceable and lawful comments, people should not fear speaking up and speaking out.
Leadership wants you to be afraid to speak out and would prefer you to suffer in silence and simply go away, and crawl off someplace, never to be heard from again.
But you don’t have to be silent. You are a human-being who matters. You have bills to pay and you have worked hard for this company. And do they truly have to push you out? I personally do not think so.
Nothing is anonymous…. On line.
“Thinking you’re anonymous online is like trusting the fox to write h-nhouse security codes.”
Ask yourself why you're not allowed to share the survey link? Everyone has their own link?
@OP - guess that's why I'm being targeted, along with several others on my team.
I previously posted about this. I'm a manager and this post is true. I've seen my director use retaliation after these surveys so I know better.
@OP not true. I'm a Director and don't know who answered what...
@a4 They have been lying about those surveys being anonymous for years.
I would not even be surprised whether this site is not even anonymous, to be honest.
Only way to be anonymous is a sheet of paper and a box to place it in.
@OP I've had discussions with teammates who have tried to made me fill it out and say what I think, but I have refused. For starters, this was something I always suspected. Of course they know who said what. And also, why do I even want to say something? Things never change.