Employee’s Blunt Answers to HR Survey Hits Home for Many Workers

Anyone who's worked at a company that has many useless tiers built into its management hierarchy has probably had to fill out one of those work surveys at some point in their career. You know what I'm talking about—those end-of-quarter questionnaires that are supposed to measure employee motivation and performance through a series of low-effort questions like, "do you enjoy your work?" or "what would make you feel more satisfied in your role?" The answers to such questions are almost always some version of "pay me more money," but no manager wants to hear that—how would the company afford to pay out the managers' quarterly bonuses if all their underlings are getting raises??

u/Landid218 recently shared a screenshot of their refreshingly blunt answers to a work survey, and the post strongly resonated with the redditors of r/antiwork. Keep scrolling for a summary of the thread.

Posted by Mel Dawn

“HR reminded us to fill out our work surveys” Posted by u/Landid218

The comment section

“Those bullshit survey serves the company only when employees answer the expected bullshit. Write the real stuff in them and oh would you look at that, we don't have to fill them anymore!” said u/tankred420caza.

“Lol I worked for a big box store’s warehouse and they did something similar. We used to could write in answers and add additional comments. They didn’t get the answers they wanted one year so the next year it only had rating options for the questions. They didn’t like the answers they got that year either though so we all had a big meeting about how we apparently didn’t understand the survey questions.” said u/fish-tuxedo.

“The problem is that you didn't give the right answers so that middle management could get their bonus.” said u/NighthawkFoo.

“At least you know where their heads are at” said u/joshuamunson.

“That's when you tell them exactly how to do it wrong and see if they take the bait.” said u/bunnyrut.