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How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by chrisbennet »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #24

The main reason I never liked filling out surveys is not because their websites didn't work well (but of course that was true too). It was because they were usually pointless. Surveys are always gamed by management. Positive results were used by management to pat themselves on the back, and would affirm that nothing needed to be changed. Negative results would be ignored by management, and therefore nothing needed to…

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you approve of the current CEO? (Pick one.)

- 9

- 10

- 11

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by cstuder »

chrisbennet wrote: post #31
dreamcompiler wrote: post #24

The main reason I never liked filling out surveys is not because their websites didn't work well (but of course that was true too). It was because they were usually pointless. Surveys are always gamed by management. Positive results were used by management to pat themselves on the back, and would affirm that nothing needed to be changed. Negative results would be ignored by management, and therefore nothing needed to…

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you approve of the current CEO? (Pick one.) - 9 - 10 - 11

Negative nine, ten, eleven?

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by gedrap »

fogetti wrote: post #30

I congratulate to the startup idea! And I wish all the best! BUT! And excuse my critical note, but I absolutely loathe the idea that my company would intrude my personal private life on whatsapp! You know what's the first thing I do when I leave the office? I turn off each and every channel which is connected in any way to my company. Complete radio silence. No email, no hangout, no slack, no nothing. Zero, zilch, zi…

Same. Might be a cultural thing or something but I'd absolutely hate the idea of being pinged about work things on personal channels (whatsapp, messenger, etc), especially after working hours. I know because I used to work at a place where I'd receive feature requests and bug reports, after working hours, on facebook messenger. Nope.

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by DonHopkins »

At Sun, during the dark days of Solaris, when everyone was depressed and wanted to quit, our manager sat down with each of us and asked: "I want to know your happiness index, a number from 1 to 10. You can use any algorithm you want to come up with it, just use the same algorithm each time so we can track how it changes over time."

I had a BS degree in Computer Science, but I was never taught an algorithm for calculating my happiness index, not even in my Artificial Intelligence class. So I had to wing it.

To protest, one of my cow-orkers made "rpc.happyd", a Sun RPC server whose function it was to track the happiness index of the team members over the network, and "HappyTool", a graphical user interface to rpc.happyd which drew a face for each team member, with a slider under your own face for adjusting the face from happy to sad.

Here's a demo of the HyperNeWS version of HappyTool, which I wrote in NeWS PostScript, and which lets you copy an encapsulated PostScript happy face to the clipboard that you can paste into other HyperNeWS applications (like pasting into the customizable clock face to make happy and sad clocks):

https://youtu.be/avJnpDKHxPY?t=13m24s

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by DonHopkins »

chrisbennet wrote: post #31
dreamcompiler wrote: post #24

The main reason I never liked filling out surveys is not because their websites didn't work well (but of course that was true too). It was because they were usually pointless. Surveys are always gamed by management. Positive results were used by management to pat themselves on the back, and would affirm that nothing needed to be changed. Negative results would be ignored by management, and therefore nothing needed to…

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you approve of the current CEO? (Pick one.) - 9 - 10 - 11

Reminds me of one of Microsoft's original dynamic HTML demos: It had two buttons, one labeled "Our Web Site", the other labeled "Our Competitor's Web Site".

When you moved the cursor into the "Our Competitor's Web Site" button, it would quickly slide out from under your cursor so you couldn't press it!

Then when you stopped moving the cursor around, the "Our Web Site" button would sneakily slide in right underneath your cursor.

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by jodrellblank »

netsharc wrote: post #29
shihabmdp wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now people are used to "WhatsApp" or messaging kind of UI than a normal form filling experience. The reason is those experiences provides by WhatsApp and FB messenger are more engaging. If we engage the survey takers, the completion rate will improve, that the whole funda behind a conversational experience

I can't help but think that after the third WhatsApp survey people will no longer think "what a novel experience", they'll be used to it and think "Yet another survey...".

Would you like to take a survey?

Do you eat beans?

Would you like to see a new movie starring George Wendt*?

Do you eat beans with George Wendt?

Would you like to see George Wendt eating beans in a movie?

Do you eat beans at George Wendt movies?

Would you like to see George Wendt in a bean-eating movie?

How many beans do you eat in a George Wendt bean-eating movie?

How many bean-eating movies have you seen with George Wendt?

Can we have a survey-filling app bot as well, so we don't have to see it?

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by another-dave »

fogetti wrote: post #30

I congratulate to the startup idea! And I wish all the best! BUT! And excuse my critical note, but I absolutely loathe the idea that my company would intrude my personal private life on whatsapp! You know what's the first thing I do when I leave the office? I turn off each and every channel which is connected in any way to my company. Complete radio silence. No email, no hangout, no slack, no nothing. Zero, zilch, zi…

Exactly this, I get enough 'urgent' stuff coming through, invading my work/life balance already.

The idea of doing HR admin stuff in my free time seems a bit fanciful:

> I have no option of taking the survey at my favourite cafe

If I'm at my favourite café, the _last_ thing I'll be doing is a work survey, unless I'm there during my working day.

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by shihabmdp »

DonHopkins wrote: post #34

At Sun, during the dark days of Solaris, when everyone was depressed and wanted to quit, our manager sat down with each of us and asked: "I want to know your happiness index, a number from 1 to 10. You can use any algorithm you want to come up with it, just use the same algorithm each time so we can track how it changes over time." I had a BS degree in Computer Science, but I was never taught an algorithm for calcula…

Great! Thanks for sharing

Re: How my third email reminder from HR motivated me to launch my startup

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Post by shihabmdp »

whyagaindavid wrote: post #38

Are you located in India or at 340 S Lemon Ave #9091 Walnut, CA 91789 BTW, using Whatspp is no go for many.

Using WhatsApp is just an option only. We built a conversational Surveys Platform. Messaging experience is the core.

Our HQ is in US, while we have a development center in India

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