FrozenToes
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I don't tell my PM what I do with the survey. ( I throw it out)
PM pays me. Has never asked if I filled it out.
Postal Pulse....Another good laugh..
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PM pays me. Has never asked if I filled it out.
I think they would assume that you've become proficient at reading upside-down, filled the survey out that way, but really meant to give the opposite scores of choice.Would you hear from anybody if you wrote a really blistering survey... I mean, like the lowest score on EVERY question, and tell them they're the devil's spawn in the comments box???
DB.Cooper
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Are you still getting 15 minutes to answer the 12 or 13 questions???
They walked around the PO today and handed them out... I never even opened mine... it's laying at home now, along with a pile of my other "junk" mail... probably get another one in my mailbox eventually...
I figured they got notices throughout the survey period on how many had been filled out at each office...
Imo, they should hand them out and then let the chips fall where they may... I hate all of the nagging reminders for the next month... ?
Btw, if you do the math... if the USPS paid every rural carrier 15 minutes to fill out the Postal Pulse survey... that would total up to somewhere around a $$$ MILLION bucks... ?
They walked around the PO today and handed them out... I never even opened mine... it's laying at home now, along with a pile of my other "junk" mail... probably get another one in my mailbox eventually...
I figured they got notices throughout the survey period on how many had been filled out at each office...
Imo, they should hand them out and then let the chips fall where they may... I hate all of the nagging reminders for the next month... ?
Btw, if you do the math... if the USPS paid every rural carrier 15 minutes to fill out the Postal Pulse survey... that would total up to somewhere around a $$$ MILLION bucks... ?
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ifitfitsitships
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We got ours this morning from our new OIC. Told us it was important and to put our time as 8127. I just threw mine in the case. Probably tear it into confetti tomorrow.
I have always wondered how they were anonymous though since last time I never filled one out and kept receiving them. Here is an article from 2017 about it: The Pulse of Employees | USPS Office of Inspector General
The irony is that the responses from that page were probably ignored as well.
gerl2
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Last time I heard it cost the PO $$$ MILLIONS to pay for this survey, the same survey for how many years. Someone is laughing while going to the bank.
DB.Cooper
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I read the letter that came with the survey... it says this is the 6th go round with Gallup/Postal Pulse... and of course they said we're making GREAT improvements... I guess they're doing it without me, as I've never filled one out...
gerl2
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retention.
In FY2016, we accomplished the following:
USPS News Link – 7/31/18 – The percentage of USPS employees who report feeling “engaged” has climbed 8 points during the past three years, the results of the latest Postal Pulse survey show.
Twenty-five percent of employees who participated in the survey said they feel engaged, meaning they are involved, enthusiastic and committed to their work. This is up from 23 percent a year ago and 17 percent from the first survey in 2015.
“The Postal Service is improving its workplace culture,” said Employee Engagement Executive Director Kelvin Williams. “We still have a long way to go, but we’re very excited about the progress.”
Boosting employee engagement is a core USPS business strategy. Research shows engaged employees work safer, have better attendance rates and provide better customer service.
More than 245,000 employees — or about 42 percent of the postal workforce — participated in this year’s survey, which was conducted from May 22-June 22. Forty-six percent of employees participated in 2017.
This year’s results, released July 31, also show the Postal Service’s grand mean score was 3.34 on a scale of 1 to 5, up from 3.25 during the previous survey. The grand mean is an average of the survey’s 12 questions.
All Executive Administrative Schedule and Postal Career Executive Service managers will receive an email from Gallup, the organization that administers the Postal Pulse, July 31. The email will allow recipients to access their team’s survey results.
USPS wants all postal leaders to share their team’s results with employees and devise plans for improvement by Aug. 31.
How can the numbers be going up what is management giving for these high scores, part of their bonus
In FY2016, we accomplished the following:
- Maintained executive level oversight of the national employee engagement strategy.
- Built on baseline results from the inaugural Postal Pulse survey in FY2015.
- Established a core team in each area and headquarters to administer training related to understanding, implementing and creating an engaged workforce.
- Encouraged employee feedback through additional channels, including dedicated email address, 1-800 number and USPS intranet suggestion box.
- Developed more than 18,000 “State of the Team” conversations and action plans to achieve engagement goals.
- Designed and delivered employee engagement information to all segments of the organization.
- Provided officers, executives, managers and supervisors training and access to a robust reporting platform for assessing and acting on survey results.
- Selected team members to support the efforts of the executive director of employee engagement who reports directly to the chief human resources officer.
- Delivered the Postal Pulse survey to 600,000 career and non-career employees. Thirty-two percent of employees completed and returned the survey. The grand mean engagement score result increased from 3.16 to 3.24 on a scale of 1 to 5.
- Identified, trained and certified 26 ambassadors to deliver training to supervisors and managers in all areas and headquarters (on two-year assignments).
- Provided training to more than 6,000 supervisors and managers, an increase from 400 in 2015.
USPS News Link – 7/31/18 – The percentage of USPS employees who report feeling “engaged” has climbed 8 points during the past three years, the results of the latest Postal Pulse survey show.
Twenty-five percent of employees who participated in the survey said they feel engaged, meaning they are involved, enthusiastic and committed to their work. This is up from 23 percent a year ago and 17 percent from the first survey in 2015.
“The Postal Service is improving its workplace culture,” said Employee Engagement Executive Director Kelvin Williams. “We still have a long way to go, but we’re very excited about the progress.”
Boosting employee engagement is a core USPS business strategy. Research shows engaged employees work safer, have better attendance rates and provide better customer service.
More than 245,000 employees — or about 42 percent of the postal workforce — participated in this year’s survey, which was conducted from May 22-June 22. Forty-six percent of employees participated in 2017.
This year’s results, released July 31, also show the Postal Service’s grand mean score was 3.34 on a scale of 1 to 5, up from 3.25 during the previous survey. The grand mean is an average of the survey’s 12 questions.
All Executive Administrative Schedule and Postal Career Executive Service managers will receive an email from Gallup, the organization that administers the Postal Pulse, July 31. The email will allow recipients to access their team’s survey results.
USPS wants all postal leaders to share their team’s results with employees and devise plans for improvement by Aug. 31.
How can the numbers be going up what is management giving for these high scores, part of their bonus
I've been curious about whether the Postal Pulse surveys were really read by anyone or if they were really anonymous. Rather than writing all kinds of blisteringly scathing remarks, in the past I have considered writing something in the comment box about being depressed and considering self-inflicted harm due to the extreme stress of the job, just to see if anyone would respond to me personally. Then I would know they were lying about it being anonymous. If no response, then you might assume no one is reading them at all. If they send someone from EAP to see me, then they're not anonymous. Interesting idea...but I never did it. I'd rather throw out the survey and keep the greedy PM from getting an undeserved bonus!
DB.Cooper
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The letter that comes with the survey says you will NOT be anonymous if you indicate you may harm yourself or others... so basically, they certainly are NOT guaranteed to be anonymous...
formerlyknownas
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They passed out ours today too. Along with the safety talk about this that and the other. PM did say if we didn't want to fill it out that's up to us
Windindaface
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Since May is mailbox improvement month. Perhaps this months handout of the PP is also about improving morale and office environment.
Got mine today too. My morale for a brief time this morning went up 10% when I asked where is the office shredder?
Got mine today too. My morale for a brief time this morning went up 10% when I asked where is the office shredder?
DB.Cooper
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Will they "try" to be nice to us during the Postal Pulse period??? Telling us how much they care about us as people, and asking us if we wanna be their BFF... oh, and making sure they thank us for doing good work at least every 7 days...
Yeah they will. With a forced smile, and a change in tone and speech pattern to boot. Same way a politician does it to BS and pander to a target audience on the campaign trail.
charlie
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Figures massaged by usps so things look better... But they are not. 2017 46% of the workforce responded. This was 268,000... 2018 only 42% responded this was was 245,000. So the drop in responses was 23,000 less workers filled out the pulse on 2018. Even usps should admit that less people responding is not good, but usps won't admit it... And, basically, each year had the same number of wonderful pulse responses. But if you devide that number by a lower total responses in 2018 , you get a better looking % increase in positive results... Mathematically this is true but it is a bullshit cranking of numbers to make them look good.. So, if more and more people stop sending in responses usps will be left with just the suck ups responding and, again, mathematically, they could get to 100% of responses think usps is a great place... Why, because nobody else responded..... Pathetic waste of $$$ is the Postal No Pulse Found ....retention.
In FY2016, we accomplished the following:
FY2016 results:
- Maintained executive level oversight of the national employee engagement strategy.
- Built on baseline results from the inaugural Postal Pulse survey in FY2015.
- Established a core team in each area and headquarters to administer training related to understanding, implementing and creating an engaged workforce.
- Encouraged employee feedback through additional channels, including dedicated email address, 1-800 number and USPS intranet suggestion box.
- Developed more than 18,000 “State of the Team” conversations and action plans to achieve engagement goals.
- Designed and delivered employee engagement information to all segments of the organization.
- Provided officers, executives, managers and supervisors training and access to a robust reporting platform for assessing and acting on survey results.
- Selected team members to support the efforts of the executive director of employee engagement who reports directly to the chief human resources officer.
- Delivered the Postal Pulse survey to 600,000 career and non-career employees. Thirty-two percent of employees completed and returned the survey. The grand mean engagement score result increased from 3.16 to 3.24 on a scale of 1 to 5.
- Identified, trained and certified 26 ambassadors to deliver training to supervisors and managers in all areas and headquarters (on two-year assignments).
- Provided training to more than 6,000 supervisors and managers, an increase from 400 in 2015.
USPS News Link – 7/31/18 – The percentage of USPS employees who report feeling “engaged” has climbed 8 points during the past three years, the results of the latest Postal Pulse survey show.
Twenty-five percent of employees who participated in the survey said they feel engaged, meaning they are involved, enthusiastic and committed to their work. This is up from 23 percent a year ago and 17 percent from the first survey in 2015.
“The Postal Service is improving its workplace culture,” said Employee Engagement Executive Director Kelvin Williams. “We still have a long way to go, but we’re very excited about the progress.”
Boosting employee engagement is a core USPS business strategy. Research shows engaged employees work safer, have better attendance rates and provide better customer service.
More than 245,000 employees — or about 42 percent of the postal workforce — participated in this year’s survey, which was conducted from May 22-June 22. Forty-six percent of employees participated in 2017.
This year’s results, released July 31, also show the Postal Service’s grand mean score was 3.34 on a scale of 1 to 5, up from 3.25 during the previous survey. The grand mean is an average of the survey’s 12 questions.
All Executive Administrative Schedule and Postal Career Executive Service managers will receive an email from Gallup, the organization that administers the Postal Pulse, July 31. The email will allow recipients to access their team’s survey results.
USPS wants all postal leaders to share their team’s results with employees and devise plans for improvement by Aug. 31.
How can the numbers be going up what is management giving for these high scores, part of their bonus
