'The gadget, which links to a mobile phone app and web interface, has two buttons, one yellow and one blue. The idea is that you press the yellow one if you are feeling happy, and the blue one if you are sad.'
This isn't some fancy, invasive technology that monitors your vitals or whatever. This is a way for employees to complain as passive aggressively as possible. It is manual input. 'I feel slightly bad. Better tap my button to tell my boss, because I am an infant and for some reason I think he cares.
For employers, this sounds worthless unless you assume some malevolent motivation. 'Sorry, Perry, you're certainly qualified for the promotion, but you haven't hit the happy button enough. Why don't you love Corporation as much as Corporation loves you? We'll have to give the position to Janice. She...she never stops hitting that stupid button.'
I get your point, but I don't trust ANY of this stuff. Data collection aside, it removes another aspect of human interaction - "If you want to communicate with me, press the button, M------------"
This is a way for employees to complain as passive aggressively
Are you assuming that employees are passive-aggressive?
Are you assuming that employees are passive-aggressive?
No. That is not what I said. That this is your takeaway honestly confuses me a little.
I said 'This is a way for employees to complain as passive aggressively as possible'. I myself am an employee of a business, and if I want to complain to my boss, I'll do it to his face, not press the sad button. Passive aggressive people will use the passive aggressive button. 'I didn't get that raise I was promised. Gosh golly that really steams my hams. I'll give my boss a real piece of my mind. Why, I'll press the sad button twice.'
Passive aggressive people will use the passive aggressive button.
So you're saying that passive-aggressive employees will use the passive-aggressive button - I think this is a semantics issue.
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