Is it pointless to be honest?
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Absolutely useless. In Engineering, the Director was able to see who wrote what, then took all the managers and Supervisors (in that day) into a meeting and told us to fire anyone who said anything negative. He stated that only positive reviews are allowed and to weed out the others. He would try and justify it by saying they were "disengaged" and if they complained, they were asking to be fired.
Crazy company and an awful experience in my life, glad to be gone from it.
It is and always has been worthless to fill out the employee survey and I have been here...well let's just say longer than you. It is just one of those doing for the sake of doing activities.
as already mentioned the more specific (as needed) you are they will figure out who you are... then yep it'll get worse
As a mgr. who left on my own terms and do to the nonsense - the survey is a joke. After a survey my mgmt line would meet and they'd all spend hours trying to narrow down who said what. And there was retaliation. Crown hasn't had real HR in 10 years. Every single manager should have been warned about viewing and discussing it that way. Every manager that did should have been fired. Instead of them taking it as an opportunity for growth they took it as a threat to their nepo positions.
Yes, it is. First -- if you're too honest and provide enough detail to make your thoughts actually matter, they'll figure out who you are and you'll face retribution.
Second -- a few years back my department's survey results were brutal. It was obvious, and our leadership promised that we'd hear specific results, etc and then just...never released anything. They were too cowardly to admit and be transparent with an employee group that had just told them things were going south, and they responded by doing more of the same things that caused the problems in the first place.
TL;DR -- Yeah, because it won't matter and you'll be punished.
With a CEO who actually is trying it’s worth it!
Ron Kaufman made me laugh. Throw back to the good old days, or the end of them.