Hi,
I was recently embroiled in a little bother responding to what I thought was a harmless enough survey, those 360 feedback /pulse type surveys largely done by medium/larger firms - where as an employee you can raise things confidentially (although as it was explained during orientation) the manager has some idea who's said what. I did not fully appreciate the survey goes over the immediate line manager to their Manager and thinking back now, perhaps couple of my comments should have been raised as a grievance but when I started the survey was made out to be some helpful tool but to my mind isn't so, especially after a couple of emails then received over it.
In a cold sweat having found out new employer does these too, when the time comes do you think I could just avoid it or do you just err on neutral on all everytime (but I have a feeling that can still weaken score?)