One question asked whether I seriously consider leaving Wells Fargo, and I chose “I don’t know” (a.k.a “yes, I am actually but I am afraid of retaliation”). Would I get laid off because of this? Now I am kind of scared since I haven’t got an ideal offer yet.
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D1psh1t,
Must have been the whole damn team with your attitude.
It is NOT anonymous.
I used it to retaliate against everyone in my org who said I was utter sh1te.
What would happen if most people who were planning to leave the company (actively interviewing elsewhere or has offers in the works) were to complete the survey with overwhelmingly positive marks? Then give their two weeks of notice soon after? lol
We've been pestered to complete our surveys. What happens if nobody responds? Do they assume people are or are not happy?
Only managers with 7 people who complete the survey will get results
Our manager mentioned that if our whole team completed it “we will get our own report” - that right there told me it’s not truly anonymous.
I was honest and directed them to this site to get a clue about how bad it is.
Even if they can’t tell who specifically gave a bad review, they can still guess. Look, if they know down to a manager level what percent responded, and a manager only has x-employees, they can guess who sabotaged them. At a lower level. Unlikely at the exec level.
It would be better if 50% did not respond, just so the managers would have a harder time figuring out who did.
@yec+1cv6deAC thank you for that laugh, truly needed it today.
I am in Tech, and was in charge of a similar survey several years ago. The techniques do exist to "anonymize" peoples answers while assuring that no individual can participate more than once in the survey. Google "hashing" if you're interested in scratching the surface on that sort of thing.
However, in the survey that I was in charge of, we did not use those techniques. We DID know which userID was associated with which answers.
BUT! I "anonymized" the results myself before passing them up the food chain. I personally felt it was unethical to tell people that their answers were confidential when that was not true, and I wanted to protect the integrity of the survey.
I shared the results of the survey with the participants AND management at the same time - with full anonymity to the participants. That ruffled some feathers in management, and I've never been affiliated with any survey since.
I was brutally honest on the survey. Only positive elements were the questions about my direct manager (who I love working for). I have over 25 years with this place (and legacy org) and am beyond burned out. I used to love coming to work, was proud to say I worked for WF. Not anymore. I also don't think they will figure out where the answers come from. Anyone in tech that could have figured it out was probably laid off. I also can't wait to see how they spin the results. They have to tell us something. If everyone is honest it will be harder for them to say "this is a great place to work".
Be honest on it. Don't be intimidated by management that doesn't care about you. And, don't worry about your results being known. You can always respond with "I'm not sure what you're talking about as all communications stated the survey was anonymous."
Is the survey anonymous? Will managers know who specifically, in their respective groups, said they would quit WFC? @Technology people, any ideas?
I said I am going to quit.
Told them I was last year, this year I said I'm not because I don't want them counting on my resignation.
The right circumstances will bring it about, but I'm holding out for a package as a bridge to another job. Eff the new management.
I guess they'll eventually make this survey mandatory like they did the other one about our vaccination status.
I'm so burned out on this place that I answered their survey honestly, and I simply don't care what happens.
If I valued a career here, I would have answered in a way that told them what they wanted to hear. But I'm as good as gone, so can afford to be honest.
WF didn't used to be this way. It's changed for the worse.
Didn't take the survey. There's really no upside to taking surveys like that.
yea, all those who say they are looking this they will speed it up for you sept 15
The survey was NOT sent out to improve the organization; rather, it is being used as a tool to determine if their strategy is working. GOAL = Attitition. If employee satisfaction is low, then they have quantitative evidence that their plan is working.
Let them. The department of labor in a few states have been chomping at the bit to go after Wells.
Worth pondering -- will those responding late be more likely to rate Wells positively or negatively?
On a side note, I know of some peers who won't rate Wells negatively because it could make our lower level managers, who are objectively the bees knees, look bad.
You get a whole nother week to think up something. Apparently not so many people responding. Our chief honcho has been sending out weekly emails reminding us to do it because our unit’s number were too low.
It's a trick question. They're hoping for a Yes response to estimate how much severance they're gonna save in their headcount cut plans. I'm sure there is some model they have to gauge how many will leave who answer yes in that survey and how many won't. They adjust the misery index plans accordingly going forward.
I answered I don't know then quit 2 weeks later! hahahaha!
"That's some serious paranoia"
Not necessarily. I had delt with the global employee survey years ago and the data of how many took the survey from our team was the only data to be available to my manager. I answered truthfully on it and specifically said I was unhapping at the tine with where things were going in the text field. I didn't share any of that with anyone or my manager. I was in a skip-level later after the results were in and we were taling about the survey results and I was asked point blank why I was unhappy. Stopped me in my tracks. I backpedaled and sequed to another tangent and we moved on. Coincidence? Am not so sure.
If they knew what to do with survey data, then we would not be working for such a @#$! company,
JFC Santos has extended the survey response window by seven days.
That's some serious paranoia
lets not out down older people
Your good I let them have it with comments before
Nah, you are assuming they could organize how to make a sandwich let alone take action on data without using excel and a 68 year old boomer karen.