Just found out the Employee Global survey we took in August is not confidential as they indicated on the initial survey email. Managers will have access to any employee comments left in the survey. They will not have names associated to them, but if there are more than 7 people on your team and you mention something that could potentially identify it’s your comment, your manager will know. This has not been the practice in previous employee surveys and seems deceptive on Wells Fargo’s part.
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Who cares? I wrote my comments. They were not complimentary of top of house leaders nor their decisions. They were respectfully written. And I actually shared what I wrote with my manager. And guess what. He agreed. It could put me on a bad list. But I've already been told our team's time is limited. So I spoke my mind. And I don't care. I'd sign my name to it. Unlike this site, there are ways to voice your displeasure in a respectful manner. And any leader worth anything would accept it as an opinion. Do I have faith in our leaders accepting it for face value? He-l no. But I am not going to go quietly. When my time comes, I'll take my severance and have a peace that they heard my voice. Did I make a difference? Almost certainly not. But I am a high performer. I am the fool that works my tail off for this company. And I don't regret that. I have pride in myself and anything I put my name on. I have received an exceeds rating the last several years. My hope is that someone, somewhere will realize they are pushing real talent out the door. Do they care now? No, they don't. But there is a real cost in the long term. They want to meet an efficiency metric and they are hellbent on hitting it at all costs. But in the end, Chainsaw's legacy will be the destruction of this company. And I'll take an evil pleasure in saying, literally in the survey, I told you so.
A few years ago, a friend filled out the survey and was very transparent about bad stuff that had happened to them. A few weeks later friend got a call from HR based on what they had written because HR was concerned and my friend got the short end of the stick. But friend did not want HR to take action because they were afraid of retaliation. It made a bad situation worse.
I learned forst hand that survey is definitely not anonymous and only confidential when they want it to be, not when you think it will be.
Confidential NOT anonymous!
What if a manager has fewer than 7 directs? Do they still see responses and/or comments?
"I strongly recommend that if you don't like how the company is being run that you never do a survey again. It will ONLY be held against you. Literally nothing good will ever come from it. Ever."
Gold!!!!!
We never even got results, why is the last year survey taking so long to disclose?
The survey never said it was confidential
Thank goodness my manager is not petty!!
I strongly recommend that if you don't like how the company is being run that you never do a survey again. It will ONLY be held against you. Literally nothing good will ever come from it. Ever.
I actually think the poster is telling the truth. My boss said something to me that I never told her or anyone on my team but I shared in the survey. I said what I meant and I meant what I said.
our mgr told us he would work on reviews before reading results as he said he'd know who wrote whatever.....as to not hold a comment against anyone.
so, yea, mgrs are slimy like that.
There is, there’s a difference between confidential and anonymous. I didn’t do the survey because I knew it wasn’t going to be anonymous.
Nothing is confidential or anonymous. Even if anyone promises you it is.
Comments have always gone to the manager. If you self-identify by what you write, that is on you.
Always been that way, including other banks I’ve worked for. You can see the comments but not the names.
I knew it
OP doesn't know the difference between confidential and anonymous. Seriously?
Wrong, that's how they've always been. If you're in a small team, it's well known that the manager can do a process of elimination of they wanted
as a manager I have been receiving the comments for many years, and yes, at least for some you can hone in on who wrote it. there is guidance around how to handle those situation, but know it is confidential
You'd have to be an id--t to think they don't know who filled it out
It has most definitely been the practice in the past. The survey says it is confidential. It doesn’t say it’s anonymous.
It’s not anonymous.