I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.
I am so sick of employee engagement surveys and the resulting exercise in futility around soliciting changes that never get made. It’s honestly one of the more evil and deceitful processes that capitalism and academia have ever teamed up to create.
Every year, we have to fill out a blank “what changes would you make” section, and every year, me and rhe maintenance crew (100+ people strong) put in “4 day work week”. Thats all we want. It provides a better work life balance, and we are efficient enough to get it done. But year after year, crickets.
All the office schmos get working from home, “relaxation rooms” at the office, ergonimic furniture, blah blah blah, while us maintenance slobs (who had to keep working in the field through the pandemic) get sweet dick all.
Its frustrating because its not like I want to take away those benefits from the office workers, but it seems things get cushier and cushier for them while our jobs stay the same amount of shitty.