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Comment by yapcguy | Hacker News Reader

Can't believe that employees would actually complain about their work by posting "on an internal message board for anonymous feedback".

If it's anonymous, I have a bridge to sell you!

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We have an internal blog at my company, which is an admittedly small telco. People often post honest thoughts, which are often complaining about the company.

You would think of all companies that could trace a DHCP IP to a logged in user it would be a telco. Not so.

Things are so dysfunctional around here it would take a week to attempt to do such a thing, and it wouldn't be accurate. There are so many other things going on it would never be a priority anyway.

I used to work at ALU and they had this type of board (most active section was buy/sell though).

Anonymous area felt like a road rage where employees were bitching at: - each other - government - taxes - lousy hockey team plays

it is natural selection similar to Darwin prize - if you're stupid enough to seriously b!tch on internal _anonymous_ board ...

Reminds me about anonymous surveys in some previous BigCo where emailed links to the surveys contained unique ID.

Both of those situations seem like they would set up massive lawsuits down the line.

Only if you told them why, in a "right to work" state.

Yes :)

You can post absolutely anonymous comment. But only after you log in :)

this was exactly how the "anonymous" board at Microsoft worked.

The last place i'd be bitching about my work, performance, or someone else's performance is somewhere that's persistent. It hits home when its face to face.

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