2014 modot employee survey comments

MoDOT 2014 Employee Survey: *** Comments Philips & Associates, Inc. Page 1 MoDOT 2014 Employee Survey: *** Comments Comments 1 *** 2 *** All decisions are political and not based on best value. Need to be honest and admit the construction program receives about a billion dollars per year but approx. 400 million goes to bond payments. Be honest and up front - quit twisting the truth. 3 When MoDOT has "honor our commitments" as one of their sayings it would seem that we should be more committed to taking care of the deteriorated roads in our system than pushing for interstate expansion, constructing new roads seeing how we cannot afford the system we have as has been stated in the big sales tax push. 4 In recent years I have noticed numerous snow plow trucks out on the road during a potential small snow event. I realize we want to be prepared but it seems like a large cost for these little to no accumulation events. Potential overtime labor and fuel costs for the large loaded trucks add up pretty quickly. Thanks 5 I don't like that we can't go out to do a job and have enough money to do the job well. We so often must just put a band aid on things and hope someday we can fix it right. Our letter routes are in the worst shape since I started working here. 6 MoDOT is looking for more funding; why would the motoring public vote for a tax increase when we give them what they want or need without it. 7 Everyone that drives a MoDOT vehicle should have to plow snow. I don't know why someone that is safety sensitive is deemed more equipped to drive a dump truck when they never have before. I have not heard how much we are paying back on our bonds and if that goes into the equation of going from 1.3 billion to 600 million. If that is the case it seems a little misleading. 8 Always worried about having my job. Everyone that I talk to says why don't our rural roads ge t any attention compared to main roads ? They are tax payers as well. Some of these people called in but nothing gets done - no money excus e. 9 *** Two of our 3 days off - 1/2 of them is spent sleeping. *** No room to advance in MoDOT. Once on nights you're stuck on nights. 10 How does a person answer the questions on discrimination? If you’re a white male and say you feel your feel you’re being discriminated against it would be assumed on this survey the way the questions are asked that MoDOT discriminates. These questions are a waste the way there asked. Look at the last 5 questions no one cares about a hard working white mal e that does his job. MoDOT does di scriminate against white males maybe not purposely but we're never included any group or tracker measure and can't get a promotion because we have to me et all our other numbers. I know you all can't call them quotas but in actually that's what it is. Come on people be honest with yourselves?? How do you sleep at night or live with yourselves?? 11 *** 12 I believe most white males feel they are discriminated ag ainst within the department. *** 13 ***The pay scale need to be reworked they give out cola raises and insu rance goes up you never see anything on the bottom line the 1% raise is not fair from the top to the bottom 30,000 to 50,000 theirs a bit of difference > *** < Buildings ar e too small for the number of people the y have put there > they need to bring bac k step raises > they need to take care of the employees they have > seems like all w e are to them is a number > seems like nobody cares anymore 14 In general at MoDOT, the people I work with are not discriminating or judgmental, but some people in a different department than mine can be, and have verbally admitted that they will not tolerate other sexual orientations or other political views. 15 MoDOT doesn't res pect Ch ristmas; ju st every other religion.

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