> That seems to be the best possible strategy for any feedback you have to give as a captive audience?

It is, but at that point why even have that bureaucratic process that achieves exactly nothing?

Of course, I understand that being able to pat yourself on the back and concluding with statements like "Leadership is truly connected with its employees, keeping in touch every day through questions about improving the workplace. Our surveys show 99% of our employees are very satisfied with their team, their work, and work-life balance" is "valuable", I guess, I just feel very sad about humanity.

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serial_dev 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

> why even have that bureaucratic process that achieves exactly nothing?

It is a very good question that you should never bring up as captive audience.

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baq 6 days ago | parent [-]

If you have a back channel in the audience you should get a large enough group to ask this question in the free form feedback box in the exactly same wording. Should send chills down the lord of HR spine.

Don’t do it with a group which isn’t large enough though, you’ll get you all fired for unionizing^W no reason.

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eru 6 days ago | parent [-]

Again, there's no incentive to do this. It's full of downsides, and the only upside is some lolz from trolling.

	▲	baq 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It all depends on what your utility function is, but for most people I completely agree. For a good example of such activism not blowing up completely in your face would be the OpenAI revolt and sama reinstatement, but that’s obviously survivorship bias.
	▲	Seattle3503 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before.

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eru 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> It is, but at that point why even have that bureaucratic process that achieves exactly nothing?

Well, I was talking about the best strategy from the captive audience's point of view. You are now asking about the strategy for the captor.

Going a bit beyond: getting honest feedback out of subordinates is a hard problem! Both formally and informally. That was always a big concern on my mind as a manager.