In a serious tone, Bill announced that employee surveys would be distributed by the end of July. He claims this initiative is aimed at making Truist a great place to work. It’s hard not to laugh at this. Executive Team, is it really necessary to spend money on another survey that will likely be ignored, with results never seeing the light of day? Perhaps the Board of Directors will finally realize that Bill’s leadership is failing. It’s time to cut ties and find a new leader.
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The really frustrating thing is that the surveys do a terrible job of differentiating between various levels of teammate leaders. For example, I’m on a team with 5 people, and I have a great manager. My department management is awful though.
Most of the time, the way the surveys are worded, they only account for my direct manager and the executive leaders as far as what I can provide opinions on. When I’m only able to rate those two levels, it paints a much rosier picture of my department as a whole because it’s not like I’m going to rate my great manager poorly.
I’m surprised anyone completes these anymore. Nothing ever comes about as a result. No action is taken. No positive improvements. What’s the point?
They throw away all of the bad ones. It brings the numbers up drastically.
After all Billy Bob is trying to make Truist a great place to work.
Once you have only executives left, the surveys will look great. We will just keep getting rid of people and outsourcing jobs until the survey results look presentable. It’s a damn shame that the BOD’s don’t question the results.
All the board wants is the stock to go higher, they don’t care about anything else.
My strong belief is the executive management team ABSOLUTELY wants employees to think the survey is not anonymous. Pretty simple, have that fear hanging over the process, and those that do respond write glowing reviews.
I do think the fear is overblown. The actual people tasked with aggregating the results likely feel the same way as everyone else about this leadership team. They don’t personally have any reason to figure out who said what. And if they were specifically tasked to do so, the risk would be huge (all it takes is one honest/disgruntled person to blow the whistle), and even this arrogant executive team knows they couldn’t recover from trying to game the employee survey.
You guys can’t be so stupid to think they give your manager or even their manager the names or even who completes them can you? They get the results (if four or more) and can maybe figure it out based on the comments.
The surveys are anonymous in terms of no manager knows who said what. And a minimum number of a manager’s team has to reply (usually 4 or more). The comments are where managers say “that sounds like Jimmy”. Someone up the line in HR might have “names”, but it’s thousands and there’s no reason to disclose. You’re safe but watch your comments!
I always complete the surveys honestly
I make sure to tell the truth, whether anyone likes it, or even reads it, or not.
I don't care if it's not anonymous.
Nothing has happened so far.
Hope there is a comment section, so I can ask why a brand new building went up at truist Park, when our 401k match was reduced to 4% and the ESP discount went from 15% to 10%. Isn't there office space at Truist Plaza?
It’s about as anonymous as the Pope at Easter Mass, especially on smaller teams. They know who said what or did not respond. If you don’t respond all is wonderful, you have to meet with your team and spend mind numbing time developing action plans to improve.
BTW, the survey is Not anonymous! The first clue should be when you are asked questions regarding your manager and your immediate teammates. This feedback goes directly to your manager and higher management in your LOB.
And I think EL does care - no one wants to be hated - it’s just that they don’t care enough to do anything about fixing the situation or they just aren’t competent enough to do it. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Nothing is going to change.
If the pension freeze rumor coming Aug 8 is actually true (not saying it is) then they definately want to put the survey out BEFORE they announce it.
I agree. I ignore the surveys. They go straight to my Outlook Trash
Since the survey results are consistently ignored, it's hard to understand why they continue to do these. They could save the costs of the survey and Bill could then claim those saved costs as his own.
The survey questions are typically a joke. Not asking anything about why, what or how. I mean they find out people aren’t happy with or trust leadership or maybe not proud to say they work for Truist, but what good is a survey if you don’t know or care why? Surveys are just to make you think they care, but in reality they do not. That is not say your direct manager or team don’t care but the top leaders do not to much of conflict to care and continue to get your billions in bonuses .
We get in trouble for saying we don’t agree with executive leadership.
Our leaders try to scare us into rating nicely by saying that influences pension decisions etc
What is sad is I believe very few people answer those “anonymous” surveys truthfully; although I wish more did. The results will be ignored and the talking heads of Executives will get someone to tell them what they want to hear (the bad results are not really that bad, so keep doing whatever you want to and forget about what the teammates think). This company is a toxic work environment and it is sinking ship with ole Billy at the helm. Until he is involuntarily retired (like he has done to so many good people) this place will continue to be the laughing stock of the industry. This merger and executive leadership will be taught in business schools around the country on what not to do, I hope they like their legacy being horrible leaders.
Ha! It’s just so they can say they surveyed….they just throw them in the trash and say the results were good!
We will never see those results just like we didn’t see the results of the last one.
"Anonymous" survey. I've never believed in the anonymity of those surveys.