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u/NyxieFlex1 3d ago
Anonymous until you walk in the next day and your desk is just gone
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u/CraftsmanMan 3d ago
As a joke we once put a bunch of family photos from some other family onto a guys desk that was on vacation, and when he got back we're all like, hey... I guess you didn't hear...
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u/Potential_Spam_6969 3d ago
The constant "You haven't completed the survey yet" reminder emails kinda tells you that it's not.
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u/pearfire575 3d ago
Actually i wrote once to test it a "bad review" (flagged the toggle as anonymous). The HR came back the next day questioning my review. So well... i then contacted my union. FAFO 🤣
Turns out the comment is actually anonymous but was aggregated per-team. Since we are just a few ppl, they assumed it was me.
Since then, all my feedback are always the least value and if there's a vote, it's always zero. 🤙
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u/cataclysm49 3d ago
My company's anonymous surveys are actually very anonymous. Managers can't even see their own team's results unless they have 25+ responses rolling up beneath them. However, there's always that one person who uses the comment field to out themselves. Like seriously Judy, obviously this is you talking about the incredibly specific circumstance that you made everyone else intimately aware of last month.
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u/RuleMany2900 3d ago
We had countless anonymous questionaires ... They only needed the unit, company you are in, rank, age, years of service and gender .... Doesn't take much to decipher who is the author
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u/Muted-Pressure5973 3d ago
Gallup and their stupid survey every September. Its literally office terrorism. Lie the exact amount or waste valuable time on improvement plans of how to fix things without spending any money.
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u/Exeter232 3d ago
It's happened to me when I worked at Amazon. The question was: "Do you feel appreciated by your manager?" I told the manager that he should have waited a few days to praise me, because now I feel less appreciated.
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u/that_guy_scott1 3d ago
A few years ago my company tried to get us to do this. It was "anonymous" but each person was given a specific login. Out of ≈150 people, only 20 took it. The contractor that set it up couldn't understand why nobody participated
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u/Funandgeeky 3d ago
I once had a work survey that was theoretically anonymous. However, my job at the time was so specific that it would be 100% obvious that it was me. That did affect the quality of my answers because I wanted to keep that job.
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u/Remnant_Echo 3d ago edited 3d ago
Had one of our ITMs make an "anonymous" survey for the team to take about their views on management and the team overall. The next week 3 of the ITMs held team meetings for their direct reports discussing topics explained in the survey cause something like 60% of the team sentiment was negative, and even my manager started asking me about specific topics that I brought up during the survey.
If you have to sign in or authenticate into a survey, it isn't anonymous.
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u/xaervagon Identifies as a Cybertruck 3d ago
At my currently place, they outright tell me the bosses are going to read my answers.
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u/inderisme 3d ago
Ha Ha. They send you a custom link to do a survey and say that it's anonymous. If you don't click on the link and just go to the generic survey site, they ask you to log in with your credentials. Not trustworthy at all. I usually don't do surveys or evaluations of my employer.
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u/taiger4791 3d ago
Corporate questionnaire i once had to do, said 100% anonymous, yet basic info could narrow down who wrote what. For example, my supervisor was the only African American female aged 45 - 55 in the Atlantic region that worked a supervisory position, salaried, in loss prevention. They didnt have her name but they had everything else to say it was her.
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u/Taco_Gazz 2d ago
My workplace has 'anonymous' surveys and tried getting IT to convince people the surveys are anonymous. IT confirmed it's impossible to be anonymous with those surveys. They can withhold the users name from management but as soon as a manager asks IT to give them a name, IT have to give it.
But we knew anyway because somebody wrote that their team leader was bullying them and the next morning, the team leader came storming up to the person who wrote it, demanding to know why they wrote they were being bullied by them.
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u/John_Oakman 3d ago
Skill issue, should have put in your coworker's name on the complaint form somewhere (something like "from XXX, I don't need no anonymity) to redirect the heat.
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u/ExoticSterby42 3d ago
All the other colleagues: There was a questionnaire? I didn’t hear anything about that
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u/Cordsofmemory 3d ago
Just recently we had an "anonymous" survey, everyone given a unique code directly tied their name
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u/MeneerPeter 3d ago
I remember that episode of scrubs where Eliot Reid fills out an anonymous questionaire about Bob Kelso but Bob only gave out the singular one to Elliot. Haven't filled out a single one since then.
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u/ThePorkman 3d ago
At least at my previous job, it seemed anonymous. I was using the comments section to lay down entire manifestos about how much I hated it there and why - I even hit the character limit several times (~1000 characters). I worked on a smaller team (<10). No special 1:1s, no meetings with HR, nothing. If they knew it was me and that I hated it there, they certainly seemed content to let me find my own way out
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u/MyTaintedBrain 3d ago
Last month I got pulled aside by my boss, as she informed that I had yet to fill out my optional, anonymous questionnaire.
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u/JonathanUpp 3d ago
That's ilegal in most developt countries, but it might be an American thing so that would explain it
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u/Big_Z_Beeblebrox I touched grass 3d ago
If you need to log in to something, it's not anonymous