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I company I worked at contracted a company to do "scientific" questionnaires of staff, so management knew which kind of personalities people had, what they want
by switch007 11y ago
I company I worked at contracted a company to do "scientific" questionnaires of staff, so management knew which kind of personalities people had, what they wanted out of a job etc. We had to sit through an hour presentation, being told what makes us happy.
Everyone was forced to do the questionnaire and afterwards we had an opportunity to discuss the results with the company and our managers. All through the process, management stressed how much they were interested in how we can grow, how we can do better in the organisation and so on.
I asked: why don't just sit down with people over a coffee and ask them? I got blank stares. You could tell they thought we were all too stupid to know what we wanted and that nothing valuable could come out of that process. Completely idiotic.
- kabdib 11y agoHeh. Beats having the company hire a psychologist to talk to each staff member. They wanted to know why morale was so low. I was polite and kept to topics involving work. I left about two months after that for a much better environment.
- VikingCoder 11y agoWhat would ya say ya do here?
- praveenster 11y agoMeet Bob and Bob.
- fweespeech 11y agoHonestly, it is because they don't want to help. They want the appearance of helping without the effort involved. All I want is to work remotely permanently but they insist it isn't what i want and offer me more money.
- ryandrake 11y agoWow. In the companies I've worked for, "more money" seems to be the only motivator they couldn't seem to come up with. Mind switching jobs?
- fweespeech 11y agoYou don't want my job, trust me. I honestly tried to turn down a $30k raise because of how frustrated I am with it some days. I only gave in because I was going through a hard time with a death in the family which killed any desire to mix that with looking for a new job.
- busterarm 11y agoI've worked for this company! Recently even. We also had those wonderful quarterly AND yearly reviews that don't accomplish anything other than give management a way to fire.
- bayonetz 11y agoAKA performance review theater!
- busterarm 11y agoI frequently questioned the sense of having to do a separate quarterly and yearly review at the same time, especially when we were told repeatedly that quarterly reviews did not matter and were just practice for successful yearly reviews. I'm glad I no longer work there, but at the same time I mostly worked with really great people.
- praneshp 11y agoNow I think I work here. $BIG_CORP_FEMALE_CEO_UNDER_FIRE?
- abawany 11y agoMy theory is that it seems so much easier to "delegate" and buy one's responsibility out of the problem when one's budget is awash with investor cash, particularly for public companies. In some ways it is often refreshing to work for early-stage/cash-starved companies because blatant waste such as this is not that easy to achieve. A darker variant of this theory tries to determine whether the principals of the firm being contracted have any relationship with the people hiring them.