r/CrappyDesign • u/gampsandtatters • 9d ago

A Pie Chart Used in a Workplace Training

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u/Afrogirl20 9d ago

I thought this was about marriage and read actively disengaged and thought “damn they REALLY don’t want to be in a relationship

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u/Total-Sector850 9d ago

Disengaged WITH PREJUDICE

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

It was about being a more engaged employee 🫠

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u/Afrogirl20 9d ago

And I just realized that the 18% is bigger than the 30% WOW

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

Yeah, the wedge sizes are way out of whack compared to the percentages. So whomever made this graphic was ironically not a very engaged employee, hahaha

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u/Sintobus 8d ago

They want you married to work. Lol

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u/HuckleberrySpin 7d ago

Ranked competitive disengaged

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u/Mundane-Audience6085 9d ago

How? Did they just use a blank clipart diagram and add the text?

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

That’s my guess. But others have mentioned that HR (who conducted the training about employee engagement/happiness) wanted to mislead us by thinking that actively disengaged is more common than actual engaged. Can’t fool us, HR! 🙄

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u/BlooperHero 9d ago

But if being actively disengaged is more common then being engaged, that's a problem that makes management and HR look bad. That's something that they caused and need to fix.

Or are they just yelling at employees about it? That will surely help!

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u/gampsandtatters 8d ago

They gave employees strategies to be “happier” which will in turn make us more engaged at work. 🤡

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u/BlooperHero 8d ago

Strategies like being more respected at work?

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u/Turbulent-Future4602 8d ago

Did they use a line graph to describe how happiness increases engagement over time?

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u/gampsandtatters 8d ago

I can’t even remember. But they had us draw 2“roads” with one being cruddy because of negative thoughts and the other being nice because of positive thoughts. That’s kinda like a line graph…?

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u/Turbulent-Future4602 8d ago

Lol, i have some interesting statistics that show 2 out of every 15 actively disengaged employees are 7x more likely to forget strategies than 16% of the employees that are partially engaged, if employees that are fully engaged do forget some strategies they are still 10x less likely to become unhappy.

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u/Torchenal 7d ago

Is the first road the entrance to the employee lot and the second the exit?

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u/Carlpanzram1916 9d ago

Lol seems like it. The 52% is way more than half and the 32% is wayyy less than a quarter. 🤣

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u/BlooperHero 9d ago

Even then, the smallest number should go in the smallest wedge.

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u/divDevGuy 8d ago

18 is a bit more than 15, and 15 is the same as a quarter hour. Everything looks good to me.

I have a BS in CS, so you can trust me with advanced Excel chart interpretation.

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u/Erekai 7d ago

It wasn't even until I read your comment that I realized what was so bad about the graph. Reason being, I was paying so much attention to the actual numbers that I didn't even notice the sizes of the wedges 😂

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u/karua_miruku 9d ago

I think this is borderline asshole design

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u/7HensInATrenchcoat 9d ago

Relationship status: actively disengaged

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u/Leopold_Darkworth 9d ago

Is that like conscious uncoupling?

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u/RigelOrionBeta 9d ago

Engaged: attending your work meeting

Not Engaged: ignoring your work meeting

Actively Disengaged: attending your work meeting, but sleeping through it

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u/SothaSoul 9d ago

And now they want me to TALK during the meetings I never wanted to sleep through 

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u/MulleDK19 9d ago

When you don't refine your AI images..

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u/Carlpanzram1916 9d ago

The theory is they downloaded a stock pic of a pie chart and just filled the numbers in.

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u/Due-Musician-3893 9d ago

I don’t get it. 

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u/MegaFercho22 9d ago

The portions don't match the percentages

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u/Leopold_Darkworth 9d ago

This is how it should look: https://i.imgur.com/EUCj370.jpeg

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

You get a gold star! ⭐️

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u/eaglesnout I L O VE K ER N I N G 9d ago

18% < 30%

52% should be about half.

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u/Due-Musician-3893 9d ago

Oh! I see it now, thanks 

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u/BlooperHero 9d ago

The categories are also confusing, though it's probably a visual aid for something that went along with words so I guess that's not a huge deal.

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u/No-Understanding4968 9d ago

Gallup workplace polls are so useless

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u/michaelpenta 9d ago

Do you have a workplace best friend? Stupid questions, useless polls

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u/No-Understanding4968 9d ago

Omg kill me now

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

THIS. If I wasn’t forced to have my camera on, my eyes would’ve been rolling outta my head.

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u/lonepotatochip 9d ago

What is even the difference between not engaged and actively disengaged

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

Actively disengaged is like quiet quitting, I guess? I dunno. Like this chart, the training was pretty stupid.

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u/BlooperHero 9d ago

Isn't that just engaged?

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u/Keranan37 8d ago

We did this at my work too. Disengaged is mostly "Im just here to work and I don't really care about anything else" and actively disengaged is "I hate working here and will actively refuse to care about anything."

The idea (at least in good workplaces) is that you want the employees at "engaged" or "actively engaged" as it means they enjoy coming to work and are involved in stuff.

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u/burst_bagpipe 9d ago

Is the ' Not Engaged ' when you go to sleep?

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

When you don’t “engage” in the workplace.

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u/WeHaveAlwaysExisted 9d ago

It looks like the person who put this pie chart together was in the "actively disengaged" category.

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u/jackpowftw 6d ago

Sounds like 70% need to be fired if this is the case. And 30% given more responsibility and a raise. How do they even measure this?

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u/McJuggernaugh7 9d ago

Maybe this poll was about how engaged employees are in meetings and they purposely messed up the pie chart in irony to see which employees were paying attention to call out the error?

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

I wish. It was bad design. I brought it up and got zero gold stars ☹️

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u/sjp1980 7d ago

I hope the training was "how to draw pie charts".

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u/ecervantesp 4d ago

The employee who made this chart is clearly including herself/himself/themselves in the orange 18% > 30% slice.

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u/BannedByReddit471 8d ago

Is this in gallup, NM?

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u/gampsandtatters 8d ago

Global analytics and advisory firm.

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u/BannedByReddit471 8d ago

A pie chart like this coming from an analytics firm is wild holy shit

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u/Malsperanza 8d ago

They use it to recruit new clients. "Come to us for all your analytics needs! We will make the data look like whatever you want it to look like!"

They are in great demand from DAs and law firms.

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u/K-C_Racing14 9d ago

It's not crappy design. It conveys exactly what they want you to think, not engaged and disengaged are much larger than the engaged.

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u/Potato-Engineer 9d ago

Engaged is 30%, Actively Disengaged is 18%, and yet the Actively Disengaged part is larger.

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u/K-C_Racing14 9d ago

I am guess this is one of those HR be engaged type bs things, and they want the engaged piece to be the smallest no matter if the numbers say otherwise.

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u/gampsandtatters 9d ago

This is my suspicion, but still crappy!

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u/BlooperHero 9d ago

That makes them look bad.