"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"

[KnackeredBike]

We got an email at work today (also sent to 12,000 colleagues) asking us to complete a survey about bullying and harassment, run by independent KPMG on their website

Well at first the survey didn't work properly, asking you to fill out every question one by one.

Then they "fixed" it.

Except instead of fixing it they made it so everyone could view the submitted responses to date. Which obviously contained quite personal and identifiable stories of bullying.

I'm thinking this is the most incompetent thing I have seen at work, and I have seen some bloody incompetent things along the way...

 

[velovoice]

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Well - how will the "management" wriggle out of that?

 

[classic33]

It's not the first time they've had this happen.

 

[classic33]

Well - how will the "management" wriggle out of that?

Outside company, with a history of such failures, to blame.

Simple

 

[S-Express]

DPA breach - needs reporting.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Wow, that is really bad.

 

[TheDoctor]

That is lamentable incompetence.

 

[fossyant]

That's bad. We get Staff surveys, and if you filled it in, what Department/location, a few of us could be easily identified, and this is in a 3000 plus staff population.

 

[TheDoctor]

Well - how will the "management" wriggle out of that?

By shooting the messenger, I suspect. It's what usually happens, IME.

 

[Drago]

The manner in which that survey was conducted smacks of institutional bullying.

 

[classic33]

Got feedback and further questions(based on answers given) intended for someone else in a similar survey

 

[dodgy]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/about/company/contact/

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I'm giving you a like purely for the Brass Eye Paedogeddon reference in the title.
Chapeau sir.

My childeren are safe tonight. Are yours?

 

[KnackeredBike]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/about/company/contact/

We will see what their response is. They did reply to say it was probably "test responses" I was seeing. I wrote back pointing out it must have been a pretty dedicated tester to write paragraphs and paragraphs of quite specific allegations with plenty of NHS jargon thrown in. Before you even get into the security of a database that can vomit back test responses anyway.