I completed a written employee interview and answered the questions honestly. I was told that my answers made the company look bad and now I am being accused of insubordination. The questions are subjective and require the employee to answer with their opponion. I made no negative statement about the company but I did answer the questions honestly as to my experience. I was told how I should have answered the questions to make my supervisor and company look better. Is this insubordination?
2007-03-24 08:18:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Sounds more like coercion coming from the company side. If this affects your job in some way...you might consider getting a lawyer. Just make sure you document everything you say, they say and get a copy of that written interview.
2007-03-24 08:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by janice 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insubordination is being disobedient to authority. IF your company had told you how to mark the survey and then you didn't, you would have been insubordinate. Since it appeared to you as an opinion survey, how could you be insubordinate? Since your company doesn't want honest answers, ask for a new survey so you can answer as they have directed so that you won't be insubordinate to their wishes. Explain to them that you are very loyal and will mark the survey how they want. In the mean time, if that's the kind of company you are working for. Look for a new job.
2007-03-24 08:31:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be accused of anything by anyone, but are you guilty? As an HR person, I say absolutely not. I am assuming this interview as some kind of employee survey, not a press interview. Depending on the circumstances, you should have been honest, but if this was external to the company, that might be a different story.
2007-03-24 08:27:59 · answer #3 · answered by BluedogGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is NEVER a bad thing when you are ASKED for your own opinion. Perhaps, the supervisor/company NEED a reality check! This is not insubordination, unless you were overly critical of things and of people...............besides, you WERE told to answer, honestly. You did as told. That is being exactly what they ASKED for. That's folling the company policy to me. (I own a corporation).
2007-03-24 08:28:37 · answer #4 · answered by laurel g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just learned a valuable lesson in company politics.
A co or supervisor wants to hear the truth, provided the truth is what he wants to hear.
2007-03-24 08:23:44 · answer #5 · answered by TedEx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋