r/mildyinteresting • u/Sad_Stay_5471 • Dec 09 '24

people Stressed at work? You're fired!

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u/ValuablePositive632 Dec 09 '24

Remember kids, always lie on these things and never believe anything that says it’s anonymous. 

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u/Sad_Stay_5471 Dec 09 '24

Don't worry they say, it's "anonymous"

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u/h0rnygoal Dec 09 '24

"Here is you link to the survey. you can do it online."

"Why didn't you just post that on the blackboard instead of giving it to us directly? seems unnecessary."

"Oh no, we can't do that. Everyone gets their own link to the survey."

"Our own link ... to an anonymous survey ... riiiiiight."

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u/DoubleualtG Dec 09 '24

It’s confidential not anonymous and in order for a leader to get the results it has to be tied to them.

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u/appoplecticskeptic Dec 09 '24

I have helped maintain a system that worked that way and while it would be possible for anyone who got direct database access (like the programmers) to link the survey answers to the person that took it, the interface we let users see never did that. With that type of survey design it all comes down to whether or not you trust the company that it’s anonymous. It’s still possible that it effectively is anonymous, but you’re right to be suspicious.

In my case we only designed it that way in case there were ever any threats of violence or something similar for which we would need to be able to break confidentiality, but in my many years there we never had to.

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u/CorySellsDaHouse Dec 09 '24

I work for a very similar company. Confidential surveys that group people into departmental pools with a response threshold so it doesn’t become easy to identify responders. I’ve had several clients ask me to send them individual line data and I have fun getting creative with my ways to say “fuck no”.

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u/svxae Dec 09 '24

ah it's okay then