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(1) You should not work at a place that does not pay you well, also taking into account the risk to your employment.
(2) Realize every day that it could be your last at that employer.
(3) You should doggedly be working on a side hustle in your spare time to be free from the employment trap.
Things are different now
> “Anonymous Surveys” are a trap This is both something I know is true, and also something I struggle to understand. I can't get my head around why company leadership would ever consider true anonymous feedback from down the org chart as anything but an incredibly valuable resource. Surely this could be a bad thing for some execs who are doing a terrible job and this would be evidence against them, but I would think…
Middle management have the most to lose (they get the blame for poor employee satisfaction), and they also have sufficient resources and authority to hunt down dissidents.
> “Anonymous Surveys” are a trap This is both something I know is true, and also something I struggle to understand. I can't get my head around why company leadership would ever consider true anonymous feedback from down the org chart as anything but an incredibly valuable resource. Surely this could be a bad thing for some execs who are doing a terrible job and this would be evidence against them, but I would think…
Top level leadership finds it valuable, which is why they do these surveys in the first place. Middle management is another matter. Middle management have the most to lose (they get the blame for poor employee satisfaction), and they also have sufficient resources and authority to hunt down dissidents.
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Top level leadership finds it valuable, which is why they do these surveys in the first place. Middle management is another matter. Middle management have the most to lose (they get the blame for poor employee satisfaction), and they also have sufficient resources and authority to hunt down dissidents.
Seems insane that leadership would give managers the ability to deanonymize answers, then.
I wonder how much is true for European employees, which enjoy much stronger worker protection.
In my previous workplace, colleagues were not each others' friend as well. Things are different now
Work colleagues are not friends and certainly not family. Regardless of what the corporate cultural ambassadors would have you believe.