I wonder if they reached their goal of participation by the employees?
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You know, the anonymity thing does make me wonder.
I work in a very small team and I did fill it in to not get flagged, however I did not bother reading it and answered everything with the default neutral response just to speed through.
Not long after that my manager who I normally got on with was just super nasty to me, I can only attribute it to the VOE. Perhaps one of my other 2 colleagues made a nasty comment and the manager thought it was me (he is a shockingly underqualified).
I recently discovered our director had told him the score he got and had access to the comments. VOE is super sketchy!!
I answered the VOE as I always do. I answered everything to give cover to my boss and his boss and then trashed everything that has anything to do with Honeywell management. Of course Honeywell management will deny that that applies to them. Expect more blaming managers ala John Boy saying that employees don't leave companies, they leave managers. What a crock of sh1t. For once, I just want to see one executive admit a failure. Won't happen though. Just like politicians, they can never admit any failings. Unlike the rest of us that have to accept all failures. Assigned to us by Honeywell. What a POS of a company.
I can't wait to hear the results of the VOE surveys and then the pretend "fixes" the ALT puts in place. It's my favorite time of year!
Easy way around it is this:
Give every question a block 5 or strongly agree. Don't add ANY comments, takes 2 mins of valuable HON time and you're done.
No comments means they can't come back on you for being honest, and all 5s means you took the survey and you think everything is A-ok, and they have nothing to hold you on. That's what I did - it's a better way of subversion than refusing to do it and they will know who didn't do it.
simple math. if you don't respond you must not want to work at honeywell.
They just take the percentage and set it as your next census reduction target for high cost groups ( anyone not in mexico or india).
the problem with the voe is it relates directly to your own manager - so if you respond with issues that are outside of your team, your manager can't do cr@p about it. the issues people want to bring attention to mean literally nothing - they don't advertise that they don't want senior leadership responsible for any of the actions, but that's exactly how it's gone the last 3 times, it's even in your manager's hpd to have completion and better numbers on their voe results. if you can't get help outside of your team through voe, why bother to do it at all?
Voe is bounded by some wall street/ investor requirement for employees as part of a company that has to fulfill to remain listed.
Its all optics, thats all. Wanna spare yourself pain, score high marks to avoid tonnes of actions to fulfill them till the next survey in October.
Why do you need a survey? Leave your office and talk to people every day. Not in skip levels not in look-at-me-I’m-trying events .. everyday.
Then act. No metrics and no fan fare. Just make it happen.
Didn't do it too they don't want hear what have to say. Whats funny is you can go to site secretary and put your name in to win a prize for doing voe thingy um really isn't suppose to be anonymous this place is unreal. This like doing the BSS the COS board was 100% checked green but online only like say 50% said was done. So funny
There’s so many Kool-Aid people. But I want to try to be knows by management. So you’ll probably get your ice cream instead of cookies. Don’t laugh. They’re doing it at the Minneapolis, Minnesota location.
Last year. We had an employee appreciation day. We got expired products from the vending machines. Now I know where all expired food from the vending machines go.
Can you say I’m joking around. It’s a true story.
I am a bit scared of what happens as execs give up on the voe charade. “True colors” is not a picture I want to see.
A lot of people openly mock the incompetent management and just do the Alfred E. Neuman thing, as little as possible.
Not this employee either. I'm exhausted of their sh-t. The type of exhaustion I'm experiencing isn't fixable with sleep. It's a deep, emotional exhaustion.
Not this employee. Tired of the self congratulatory announcements with no change.
Place is a dump. Soon it will be a dump with more people when they give up on these hug-fests and tell everyone to get back to work— probably by disabling vpn.