Employee satisfaction survey? That's a joke.

Hiding behind a once-per-year employee survey and wondering why your turnover and churn are skyrocketing? There might be a correlation, boss man.

Companies love to do things annually, have some big-ass all-hands meeting about them, and then essentially never discuss the concept until the next annual iteration of it. A big example of this: the employee satisfaction survey. I like leading posts with stories -- they resonate with the human brain, baby! -- so let's do that here.

I had a gig once where…