The race may already be lost, but still.

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    24 days ago

    I blame management metrics that punish anyone for getting less than 5-star reviews

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      24 days ago

      In the US.

      God, I literally was told by my manager at my first job to tell customers, when they got a random survey, that anything less than a 10 is a 0.

      Japan does 5 star ratings proper.

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        23 days ago

        Had to deal with similar surveys. Rating was 1-10, 8-9 was “just OK”, 10 was “your ratings better be here”, and anything 7 or lower was a serious issue.

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        23 days ago

        A three-star restaurant on Tabelog is life-changing cuisine. I’m not sure what you’d have to do to earn four, but it’s probably illegal.

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        23 days ago

        That’s how our state scores conditions for learning surveys that factor into our school district “report cards.” I just flat out tell kids that I proctor for “if you ACTUALLY agree with the statement, choose strongly agree.” All other answers are scored as negative.

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      23 days ago

      Yeah this is why I almost always give 5* reviews to any sort of thing that’s traced back to a worker unless I really feel like they need to be reprimanded for something, and how badly they should be reprimanded is how many stars I take off. This is only for the 1% who really need a talking to.

      When it comes to product reviews on Amazon for example, or business reviews, I feel a lot more free to give my real opinion to help the next person.

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        23 days ago

        Every time I have to do an after call/chat survey I try to add a comment along the lines of “Your representative was very helpful, but I had to deal with too much waiting and too many chatbots to reach them. Please hire more staff.”

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        23 days ago

        Everyone I’ve ever dealt with who thought the employee needed reprimanded was either

        • A huge asshole

        • completely wrong

        • didn’t like a policy that the employee had no say in

        • was dealing with a reversible error that required training not reprimand

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          23 days ago

          The times I’ve done it were for:

          • One guy who had his phone in his steering wheel and was playing some sort of online gambling the whole drive and didn’t look directly at the road once
          • One guy who was driving around on a spare tire (doughnut) on the highway at speeds way above those it said on the tire.

          I mean I can look the other way on just about anything (I’ve given 5* to a lot of questionable driving decisions and shitty cars) but when you are putting my life at risk, that’s where I draw the line.

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            22 days ago

            Yep perfectly justified but you can’t actually couch gambling guy you really just need to fire him because he’ll continue to be a moron.