Odd survey that my work is making us do

[Morrison79 0]

Today during our monthly meeting our boss asked us to fill out a survey about our coworkers.
I work for a smaller company with only 6 employees in this office. Anyway we are supposed to rate employees from best to worst in a bunch of categories like best worker, best character who needs the most improvment, ect.....
Has anyone else's boss ever had them do this?
Would you fill it out?
This seems strange to me to request something like this and I don't see the point of it.

[waltappel 1]

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Today during our monthly meeting our boss asked us to fill out a survey about our coworkers.
I work for a smaller company with only 6 employees in this office. Anyway we are supposed to rate employees from best to worst in a bunch of categories like best worker, best character who needs the most improvment, ect.....
Has anyone else's boss ever had them do this?
Would you fill it out?
This seems strange to me to request something like this and I don't see the point of it.

The term impending layoffs comes to mind.

Walt

[Broke 0]

Sounds liek a bad idea to me. Why not just have it like surviver and vote someone off

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[normiss 892]

we did something like that at Schwab years ago...some sort of 4x4 feedback or some shit.
they wanted our opinions of all the coworkers...I thought then and still think it was used for the layoff selection.

[angrypeppers 1]

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The term impending layoffs comes to mind.

Walt

Bingo. My company did something similar, but we were all ranked in order of "value to the company" from one to whatever. We were then grouped into sections 20%/70%/10%. The bottom 10% were either laid off, or encouraged to either step up to the plate, or leave on their own. The rankings were performed by management, and we still have not been told specifically what information was used to create the ranking we received. And no, we little worker bees were not allowed to rank management.

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[tigra 0]

Reminds me of some crap an old manager tried to pull- she wanted us to rate HER "anonymously". She insisted everyone turn one in then used (or tried to anyway) what we said against us at review time.

And when our corporate office sent out "anonymous" employee satisfaction surveys, she tried to intercept them all before they went out. I'm pretty sure that came from local upper management but at that point I had had about enough of her and called corporate and complained about what managment was making us do with the "anonymous" surveys. I don't think I was the only one, either. Next thing you know, we're getting emails apologizing for the "misunderstanding" and telling us that we were supposed to use the pre-paid, pre-addressed envelopes to send the surveys in.

Bottom line- I'm leery of ANY employee surveys and this one in particular just sounds like trouble. You and your co-workers will find out exactly what everyone else said no matter what. I can't even imagine why your boss would ask you to do something like that, especially in such a small office.

[quade 4]

Yeah, that's just bullshit.

The real issue is your "boss" is too much of a pussy to just outright fire somebody and own up to it, so when he finally does, this will remind you all that it was you and not him that fucked over your fellow employee.

Nice.

Larger companies have entire departments for the simple purpose of fucking over people. They euphemistically call it, "Human Resources".

(did I just say that with my outloud voice?)

I mean, uh . . . I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. I'm sure the company values its workers and treats them like family.

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