Have you completed your survey? For the first time ever I was completely transparent in my response. No, I don’t believe leadership stresses integrity. No, I don’t believe we’re able to speak without retribution. No, I don’t believe leadership supports honesty, transparency, and accountability. Time to be honest and lay it all out there in surveys like this. Can you hear me now Sam?!?!
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Respect is a two way street, bootlicker.
You should be fired for showing that much disrespect for leadership!
Can't tell the truth and not going to lie so the only choice left is non-participation.
@OP
Yeah, there were sc--w-ups — show me a company that hasn’t had them — but it wasn’t some company-wide meltdown. The real drag happens in certain pockets where the boss is either checked-out or too soft to deal with problems head-on. That’s when the survey game turns into ‘give all 5’s so we don’t have to sit through another year of pointless touch-bases.’ Those pumped-up scores look good on paper, but they hide the truth: some teams are running on fumes while others are still firing. Integrity’s not gone everywhere, but where it’s missing, it’s because nobody stepped up to fix it.
@fy
so true, though I did have a Director, many years ago, who thanked my AD first, then said, "but we know X and the team did a great job turning this business customer around and activating new business with us!"
That was nice, we got a nice lunch delivered to the office as a "thank you". I remember she moved on to ATT when the business closed office in NJ and relocated to Laurel, MD, and I lost track of her. She, though, knew the score.
@ad
I was in a situation like that too where 2 people basically scored all 1's. Director wasn't bad, but very wimpy, and yes, we all paid the price with meetings and a lot of empty touch-bases. Eventually, it settled out and all of that went away but it lasted just over a year.
Now, I just give all 5's and I do the survey well before the due date. It doesn't matter and I don't care anymore.
A couple of years ago, I actually responded with my real, very low answers. The team I was on was small, less than ten people. So when we got the summary percentages of the team's responses, it was easy to calculate that my responses where either ignored or changed to acceptable values. Since then I've just submitted null responses to every survey so that they leave me alone for not completing the surveys.
@fx every award given to someone director level and above was phony. The people that earned those rewards and did the work got a Recognizing You for $150 though lol
It's funny that the honest people get backlash for being honest on this "anonymous" survey. Do they really think the majority of people are that stupid and give their honest opinions? When they receive all top scores, they pat themselves on the back thinking they did a good job not realizing people just give it top scores and done with it. We've all seen this on the townhalls etc....so pathetic and fake. How many phony awards have you witnessed at VZ?
@ce check in your assigned required training, totally "voluntary and anonymous"
Was brutally honest because I can’t lie anymore
@ae knock it off Hans
@ad Purpose of the surveys has always been to produce the appearance of unwavering groupthink support for the business lunacy out of the C-Suite.
Stock effectively stuck in a holding pattern for almost 3 years now. After the Charter+Comcast MVNO move, there is no way out. This is a company being positioned to be sold.
They never address the honest, candid feedback that is normally the elephant(s) in the room. When the surveys began, poor leaders were called out. They are gone and for years the feedback has been about executive leadership so they scaled back the amount of surveys rather than addressing the issues. VZ leadership will not answer the tough questions because it would require them to be transparent with their continued plan of eliminating jobs in favor of cheaper labor overseas.
Hans is a good dude. Give him a good review.
@OP I agree with you and think that you are correct in your responses. I've answered honestly in the past but all that did was bring heat down on my immediate manager and the manager wasn't the source of the problems. This in turn caused us to have meetings that had no hope of correcting the issues.
I learned quickly to tell them what they want to hear. Nothing changes here for the better.
I really do agree with you though and maybe if we'd all answer honestly something would happen but the cynical side of me thinks otherwise.