Score the company, team, leader too low, and you might find yourself part of a RIF.
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@k0 thanks to ProtonVPN, I’m in the Netherlands. 🤷♂️
These posts speak volumes of the culture where you sit... So much fear!! If you're an employee who feels you are at risk for sharing your voice, file a complaint. Get an internal investigation going. Hey the survey could even help you! As even tho leaders can't see who said what I'm sure there's some tool behind the scenes that can. Perfect scenario to win a retaliation case.
Don’t respond to the survey. Just don’t.
@1qn if you have not offered yourself up then I hope the sh---y performance I know you’re bringing to the table is the driver in you being next to go. Get the he-l out. And when you’re driving through the pot holes to get to your new job, remember this post and your comment and what you wanted. Good luck in your new venture.
Sincerely,
Someone who is happy here and wants to stay but we get blasted by “oh I would so be okay with being let go but I’m too much of a chicken sh-t to voice this cause I sure do like my cushy work from home job”
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Looking forward to your reply
@1qn volunteer yourself then and save someone. It’s so easy to come onto these threads anonymously and be all “hope/don’t mind if I get the cut!” But if you have not voiced these feelings to your leadership..GTFO. Hope you get exactly what you want
I’ve always heard this to be true and as crazy as it sounds, I wouldn’t mind being laid from Centene. I luv my job, I don’t take time off, support other teammates, and always asks for more work but that doesn’t seem to ever satisfy my manager. The work life balance has gone out of the window. My team is severely micromanaged. I don’t like the energy from my team lead. Idk what’s changed but its stressful.
This is almost 100% TRUE. Check the survey results and it has NPR scores - Net promoter scores and below it is a KEY word - Distractors.
These are folks who will be let go....
Your responses ARE tracked back to your team. Managers know how many on their team have or have not responded. From there, they can figure it out at the very least. If it is a small team, it is easy. One of my early managers figured out it was me, so did the VP, but I managed to play it off. No more comments from me.
Ok fair enough, let me put it this way: leadership can’t see names or identifying info. I guess corporate could if they relly wanted to.
@jf Exactly. Those surveys are anything but anonymous. Trust them when they say they are? They have lied directly to us before, they would have no problem lying here.
Even if they are "anonymous", they have already admitted that the employees who have not responded are known. And the direct manager of the person surveyed IS known, and matched to the survey responses. So guessing who said what is not rocket science. But I don't even trust that much.
Any way you slice it, those surveys are not anonymous.
Neither is this site for that matter, they have your IP address, and commenting here is as much of a risk as any other form of venting.
@jc I don't believe that for a second. Why? If it was, I wouldn't keep getting emails saying I didn't do it yet....I don't do them for that very reason
Centene Voice is completely anonymous. Everything else - not so much.
Just a word of caution about those employee surveys. If you like your immediate management chain, then you need to give management AND the company high marks. You rip the company and your management gets bad numbers. And yes at least one manager was let go at least in part due to bad numbers from trying to rip the company but not the manager. Of course they do not consider the comments which say very clearly that these numbers are for the company top level execs, not management. They merely assign a bad number to the manager and send him or her to continue on their "journey".
They have every aspect of these reviews gamed to deflect blame entirely to lower management. So be careful when assigning a score, it will NEVER be held against the top executives.
We have been conditioned to accept the abuse.
@aj Oh you mean like "skip levels"? I don't know about any other teams, but mine hasn't had one in years - even though it's been requested by multiple team members. Nepotism runs wild in this company, and it's obvious. It's like a bad relationship - eventually, the other person gives up and stops caring, stops asking, stops using their voice to make things work, with the final result of exiting the relationship altogether. Yeah, maybe in the short term it doesn't matter to them when they have a pool of thousands of employees, but eventually it will catch up, and when it does, it will be faster than they ever imagined. Every beginning has an end.
I stopped taking them because what I say doesn’t matter. I’m looking to get out. I am good at what I do and I am going silent.
I stopped taking them. I’m too busy to even breathe much less take another survey
Well that would explain what happened to me. So much for anonymity.
No, the surveys are a "union avoidance " tool. Lookup Perxeptx. "
"Analyzing employee sentiment and identifying "frustrations" before they become problems"
The surveys are used to weed out workers who are not happy and could talk to others. Measure and break "issues" before spreads.
If leaders actually cared about workers, they would have meetings where workers could actually speak freely. Not canned questions and webinars.
Or is this a ploy by a leader who got a justified sh---y survey score and is now using layoff scare tactics to get themselves a higher score so they can A) not get fired themselves or B) subsidize the bonus they get from their team members that don't get a bonus but do all the actual work?