Walk This Way, Please - 5 Minute Freewriting

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Have a little time today so let's do a little writing and share some thoughts through a 5 minute freewrite.

Being at the crossroads of decision is something that all of us encounter from time to time. While some decisions are easy but there are others that will need to take a longer time to make.

However, in recent days, I encounter a special decision crossroad. While it was an easy choice for me, but the other choice came prompting with "walk this way, please." Kinda weird isn't it? To share the situation, it is actually a survey that we've gotta do in the workplace that I work for.

Employee engagement is something that holds dear to many companies and people would want to see how to improve to make the workplace a better place. And this is something that I thought it was when I do a survey. I give an honest feedback to help improve things in the office. But in recent years, we end up looking at this result as a metric and it is expected that everyone supposed to be happy and not give feedback to help. And when I did ever give a feedback to reflect the reality, I am being judged and people think that I am the eccentric one.

And this outcome really intrigue me. Giving feedback versus being judged for giving feedback. This suddenly become a tough survey to do and to be honest, are we really happy?