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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like the question needs to be the exact opposite.  My current job is a good one, and I like it, but I'm here because they pay me not because I love it.  I've had jobs, though, that I was physically sick to my stomach as I drove to work and walked in. That's how much I hated my boss and the role.  THAT, in my mind, is what they need to uncover.  Not just how many people like their jobs, but how many truly and absolutely are miserable for a range of reasons.[/quote]

I agree with this.  That survey sounds misguided.  It's not the role of an employer to entertain people.  After all, they're paying people to come in and do a job.  But it is the responsibility of the employer to maintain an environment in which people can actually do the jobs they're getting paid to do without being harassed, bullied, made ill, etc.

Usually, when surveys like that start cropping up, it's because there's a toxic environment.  But instead of actually addressing the toxicity, they focus on the frivolous, surface-level stuff.  It's sort of like there might be a bully of a manager who demeans and belittles people daily, but instead of actually firing the manager,the employer will create "ice cream Fridays!" and declare that they want their employees to look forward to coming to work and think they're improving morale.  So all that achieves is making employees feel pressured to PRETEND they look forward to coming in, which adds insult to injury if it is truly a toxic environment.[/quote]

This is OP - and yeah, I see that! We don't have a toxic working environment but there are some prickly people (I work with some of them but overall it's ok). I agree that the survey kind of gets it backwards. I don't know - it's just such a strange question to ask of an employee. I work there - it's not my baby. I didn't start the org! And even if I did, I wouldn't expect to wake up every day excited to go to work. I don't even feel that way when I wake up to work on my books, which I do not have to write in order to pay my mortgage, but I take on because I feel an urge to tell stories (and some people seem to like reading those stories - find me in your local bookstore, please. Please!).

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