Anyone else forced to take the AOS VOLUNTARY SURVEY.
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Remember, even though it is in your email and each email has a unique link, "it is totally anonymous" and "confidential"
They didnt have to force me. I will love to see how they spin the results, if they have the stones to release them at all!
They want the truth, they can’t handle the truth.
There is no management bonus for participation. Could have been in the past possibly, but there is not one now
Best thing you can do is NOT PARTICIPATE!
Managers get bonuses based on participation, not the results.
Dont do the test - it sends a bigger message than filling it out as poorly as possibly.
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The key is to totally tank the survey. This will put a bullseye on the store and will require employee engagement intervention. So what is this employee engagement intervention??? The district team will come in and bring surrounding ASMs to run the store while your managers have to go thru two days of how it’s about trust... while your managers are doing this, the ASMs that are brought in make buddy buddy typically with your laziest and worst employees and then come and tell your management team they are superstars. I remember being stuck in that training room and when they told us who were the two most under utilized employees my management team was like WTF. The chick that can’t use power equipment or go outside for cart runs or use a ladder all due to health conditions and the dude that can’t show up on time, always has a workers Comp case open, these two are our most under utilized people????
you can add and remove store/employees to narrow it down to who sold you out... they do it all the time...it is the harassment to take it that is uncalled for.
lol. the company used matters little. the parameters given to them a whole lot more. i know for a fact that they know who took the survey at least down to the department they work in. as i said before youre often rating your direct supervisor...they even come up with ratings for the supervisor based on this information.....they even have a corporate team that investigates you if your score is incredibly low. i wont go so far as them knowing you down to your name...but they do know you down to your position level and what department you work in. thats the data lowes demands of the survey company to data-mine. so as an example if youre an ASM rating your direct supervisor - the SM.....theres only 3 ppl that it can be to fill out a survey on you as SM and process of elimination is much easier. open your dang eyes! if the questions are about your direct supervisor....its useless information if they dont know who your direct supervisor is!! that makes YOU the survey taker at least PARTIALLY known!
Like I said I've worked with surveys on Qualtrics et Al extensively for almost a year. The data is anonymous. I would have no way to track down who submitted what. It's that simple. I get that management is awful and when they can get away with it they are happy to retaliate. But in this specific case at least it's literally not possible for them to do so. Email a sociology professor who does research and they will tell you the same but in even greater detail if you don't believe me.
they most certainly are tracked. youre often rating your direct supervisor....in order to pair your survey to your supervisor theyd have to track you.....DUH! now even if you arent tracked by name.....if your department is small etc. etc. etc. process of elimination would allow them to figure out who's who....
Former ASM here, these are tracked to a point. From what I remember it was Managers, Specialists, Full-Time, Part-Time.
Yeah if you pay FSociety 150 bitcoins they can do it for you. You can also resolve a fistfight with a thermonuclear bomb, but that's also not saying much.
Any high level manager or HR person could tell you the data they receive does not tell them who said what.
—. Any good hacker can tell them how to trace it back
Of course each URL is unique, that's just how surveys work. They don't associate results with specific people. Not sure if they're still using Qualtrics for example, but that site is used with academic research all the time where anonymity is vital - and yet each survey link those researchers send out has a unique URL.
Any high level manager or HR person could tell you the data they receive does not tell them who said what.
I have always suggested that if they want true opinions, they would put all access codes in a hat and let you draw from it. Nothing has ever been anonymous with those surveys.
As far as being forced, I was asked all the time if I did mine. I would do it and without telling anyone that I did but I did it on a chromebook behind a VPN on the Lowes wifi. I would never be asked again.
Anonymous my butt.
I don't know about forced. But I was asked a few times yesterday if I completed it yet. I was told to go to training room to do it. Still haven't.
As far as anonomous, if you hover your mouse over the link and look at the lower left corner, it will show the URL. At the end is an encryption which is your identifier. It's a combination of letters and numbers. Each unique. That ID'S you.