Only sticking around to shove a 1 score on the 'would you recommend' question, something of which I've never done in my tears as it reflects badly on my direct leader. Given they are absent and chasing the same dreams we are, my head says who cares might as well trash the ENPS with the knowledge it always leaks every year although the business stopped publishing the scores years ago because everyone continually trashed them and they've never bothered to fix the issues - although maybe they have now with ODW and AI bots!
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Why punish the managers for being useless
@at It is definitely a scam, but I can speak from experience that there are consequences for managers that get low scores. A few years back my manager told us they received the lowest score in the company (Actual number was not shared). Manager was put on a PIP and a consultant was brought and broke the team up into focus groups to talk about our feelings. 3 Months later our manager was sacked. Sadly part is that 3 months was by far the most pleasant working experience I had at Dell.
In the results that you get as a manager (or Sr. Manager/Director for that matter), you will have no visibility of any names. Not even who responded and who didn't.
I'm pretty sure it would even be highly illegal to claim it's anonymous if it wasn't, not to mention potential GDPR implications if they'd record that without the consent of the ones they are surveying.
The only way a manager could connect the dots is if someone writes in feedback and does it in a way where you could recognize the person from how they write. Obviously also if you happen to be in a more diverse team and someone chooses to do it in a language that only they speak (as it will show feedback answers in whatever language it was provided + a translation). As an example; If you are in a team with only one French speaker and there's only one response in French, it's not exactly hard to do the math.
Do survey in English and score/write whatever you want.
There are for sure di-kheads that will try to somehow find out (been there, done that with a sh---y director), but there's no way for them to tell.
@an Even worse is having to listen to someone complain about a subject that they can choose to not read and/or follow
Tell Dell is a scam. It's totally manipulated and is ABSOLUTELY NOT confidential. If you believe it's confidential, you're an id--t.
Your entire team can give your bozo manager a 1 but when it's time for him to present his group's feedback, he'll present that everyone gave him a 9. True story.
Don’t Tell Dell! They don’t care! Everyone needs to boycott this years Tell Dell and don’t allow your manager our leadership to pressure you into it. If they don’t care, we don’t care!
Oh great, another 3 months or so of people telling us they're going to stick it to them on tell dell....
....they dont give a single sh1t about it.
What???!!! LMAO have you been sleeping for two years?! You’re sticking around for that??? No one cares man move on! WOW.
I feel like a general boycott of the survey would send a stronger message. They absolutely hate when the response rate is low.
No one remaining should fill out Tell Dell. A complete boycott! They don’t do anything about the scores anyway, and certainly don’t get rid of low-scoring managers.
I love the mails that circulate after Tell Dell
“We heard that constant layoffs were causing crippling anxiety and WE LISTENED. Starting Q5, no more layoffs.”
I think many over the years are conditioned to vote favorably as this is mostly grading your manager, now that it's 20 deep that's no longer the case, so vote with your heart, whether that's positive or negative, understand that voting in the middle does not move the avg, let your opinion be known vote on the extreme side, whichever side that is.
Like Ethics and HR, Tell Dell serves the company first, not employees. The only real counterweight is workers standing together and opting out of the shenanigans.