A lot of the things I'm reading here are really surprising to me. We've had some turnover and a bit of drama at my campus, but have always been told that the employee surveys were very positive system wide. Also that we always win awards for the best place to work. Was that just BS?
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Don't you think it was also very "coincidental" that they were strongly pushing for the surveys to be completed right before one of the major RIFs earlier this year? I am not sure how employee satisfaction plays into the health of an organization, but it seems to me this was very deliberate tactic. If the survey happened after the RIF, I bet there would not have been a single positive review at all. The lack of transparency and deception have taken their toll, and this is just karma. It sucks for all that will be negatively impacted, but the writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
I think most of the employee reviews were pretty good. But it was only because the staff were so stressed and mistrustful of management that they felt the need to lie. At my location, management quoted a bad review and made it clear that they knew who the reviewer was. There was a lot of intimidation and outright bullying.
That all makes a lot of sense, but it's leaving me feeling betrayed. I just kept myself busy serving students and doing my job, only to find out that there has been all of this incredible malfeasance brewing within the company. Now that it's erupted, I might end up without a job and I haven't prepared for that. It's the dishonesty that really hurts. Granted, I'm probably a bit naïve, but I still feel lied to and manipulated. Probably like the students feel I suppose.
Whenever companies push employee surveys and brag about how great it is to work there, that's a bad sign. Only shitty companies waste time convincing their employees that they aren't shitty companies.
Yes, as a past Director and BI, I know the real results versus the company wide messages. They were generic at best.
Yes.
As a specialist in research methods, I can say with confidence that most people don't know how to write or interpret surveys.
Another factor is that, at least for the online adjuncts, up until about 2 years ago, it was a pretty neat job. But then the stronger students became fewer and fewer and the adjuncts were more and more micro-mangaged.
YES it was ALL BULLSHIT....wake up!