CareerBuilder has launched a new site called Anonymous Tip Giver that allows allows users to provide constructive criticism or advice to their boss without revealing their identity.
Spurned employees can select from one of four characters and choose a unique voice to deliver a tip for the recipient. They can write up their own advice or select from a list of pre-made tips such as “One out of 10 people think your barking dog ring tone is funny, that one person is you.” They can even record their message over the phone. The fully animated tip is delivered to the recipient’s e-mail box.
“Anonymous Tip Giver is part of CareerBuilder.com’s new national marketing campaign, which is officially launching at the Super Bowl,” said Richard Castellini, Chief Marketing Officer at CareerBuilder.com. “The campaign is a lot of fun and is chock-full of tips to help workers ’start building’ better work experiences.”
In a recent survey CareerBuilder found that out of the 8,000 workers they polled, 43 percent said they quit a job because of a bad boss. The site was inspired by these results.
Some survey respondents shared real life examples of bad boss behavior that borders on the bizarre, including:
* Hid in weird places in order to spy on employees
* Took a bite of someone’s doughnut while they were away from their desk
* Held a meeting while locked inside the bathroom
* Brought a gun to work and cleaned it in an area behind employees
* Tap danced on employee’s desk
* Showed everyone a kidney stone he had passed
* Broke down and cried during a meeting, “Why don’t you like me?”
* Kept his lunch in a freezer intended for human organ storage
* Used a taser gun on a subordinate
* Declared “Talk like a pirate day”
* Rode a child’s scooter through the office
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January 28th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
so how many times will CB recycle the same, tired content?
glad to see the capital from those massive layoffs is going to something useful and helpful to job seekers.
what a river of crap.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
here is an interesting article about Careerbuilder’s odd decision to turn job seekers against their former boss’s.
http://www.hrblunders.com/site-lets-employees-tell-off-their-bosses-anonymously/
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Ummm, isn’t the HR department for addressing these issues?? Especially when bringing guns to work? Yeah, I think I would go somewhere else besides a silly email to address some of these topics.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I wonder how many customers CB has lost and Monster has gained (I believe it is the employer that puts the ad on there to begin with). Finding a “fun way” for people to harass each other probably isn’t the best idea for the work place.