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  • Just remembered another one:

    Have you ever had an anonymous survey sent to you by your work or by a company your work has hired? They’re not anonymous. Management knows what your opinions are and will use them against you.

    I worked for a consultant that would try and help fix businesses. The worst example I can think of was when I saw one person had answered a survey question saying that their employer had a “blame culture”. Rather than trying to work on the processes or address why something had gone wrong, staff would start pointing fingers to keep out of trouble. This didn’t fix anything and only made people spend all the time covering their posteriors.

    The manager called a general meeting of everyone at that site and then singled out the employee who’d mentioned the blame culture, blaming him for saying there was a blame culture. The employee then pointed out that they’d been told, in writing, that the survey was anonymous. That employee called the manager a liar and then she lost control of the meeting, with lots of employees calling her a liar and several storming out. They weren’t in business the next year.











  • Ace_of_spades@lemmy.worldtoUKCasual@lemmy.worldTV Tuesday
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been watching a series on Disney + called “Lawless Island”.

    Its actually very good. Its a National Geographic documentary that follows the lives of people living in a small, isolated village on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. Their struggles include getting enough firewood for winter, stocking up on fish, trapping mink in order to make their shoes waterproof again, felling trees that become a danger to their homesteads and building a shed so that they can have access to duck eggs all year round.

    I don’t know why its so compelling, but I love the people who live there.