Is the survey really anonymous? I mean, you do have to sign on with your employee ID.
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It’s anonymous. What some do is type in your employee number at the site and if they don’t get the message that you’ve already completed the survey, they know you didn’t take it. That’s the shady “sugar” they do!!! They don’t see who says what. I’m dead serious. I am no fan of this company but it pays the bills.
I don’t believe that they are anonymous. Four years ago I was called up to the office to take the survey because they said I did not take it. I asked them if it’s anonymous how do you know I did not take it? The person just kind of gave me this look and didn’t answer the question. If it’s anonymous they would not know whether or not you took the survey, and a true anonymous survey will not ask for your employee number.
Former AST Supervisor. Comments are of course viewable, but not identifiable. The comments are discussed at leadership meetings. Not all of them but the more concerning ones and what we can do to fix it. The last comment sheet I saw was a few years ago and they were not categorized. Just numbered. It was one document the store manager was reading from. Some were anywhere from one sentence to a long as heck paragraph. No employee numbers, no grouping by category or managers. Just pages of comments numbered 1. to whatever number the last comment was.
It’s anonymous. She was your girlfriend and you naturally vented at some point. So when the comments were read, she knew it was you. Reports only show the number of people under a manager who have taken it yet. Shows no names or employee numbers so that’s why pl’s keep asking you to take it because they have no idea who hasn’t. And only store managers have access to this info and they don’t know who. They just say, PL, you have 4 colleagues who have taken it.
The survey is anonymous. I think Macy’s is a horrible culture who hires horrible store executives and I’m telling you it’s anonymous. I’m a former AST Supervisor. It’s anonymous. Depends on what’s said specifically in comments, it’s easy to guess who it was. And some comments can be anyone because a majority of people have expressed the same feeling. So seriously, of course your girlfriend knew it was you. You expressed some kind of feeling to her similar to what you commented. Smh
It is absolutely not anonymous. I let them have it one year. I was quiet, did my job, didn’t complain. And I went full scorched earth because I thought it would show them how asinine the company is run. Fast forward a day and my girlfriend, who was a manager at the time and not from my department, asked me about it. She knew specifics that I never told anyone, so I knew it was circulated around the entire management team. That’s when I lost all trust for the company. She quit later that year.
Yes they are anonymous. Employee ID is used to group you with your direct people leader and to make sure you don’t try to tip results by taking it numerous times. The only way they will know it’s you is when you make actual comments or mention very specific info and they are the exact same comments/specifics you make in store to coworkers and managers. Macy is made up of a ton of liars, but as a former AST Supervisor, I assure you it’s anonymous. I have always been super honest even when it was all negative. One boss I had was going crazy trying to figure out who made a particular comment. He kept asking me who I thought it could be. So that’s how I knew it was anonymous. Drove him crazy for the entire year. Lol
Is anything ever improved with the surveys? It just validates the person who created it...their pay.
Wish to God it weren't anonymous so I could be confronted and finally have it out.
That’s bull they don’t want honesty or they would have fixed many problems along time ago!
Yes, they are because I use to wonder myself for years! After getting the scoop from the inside, they can make speculations and assumptions but they can't tell. Be honest and have no fear. We need honesty right about now to enact change!!!
Only a naive corporate grunt will ask this question – every promise that comes from management and HR is a fraud.