Owner turned an "anonymous" company survey into a public loyalty test.
I used to work at a pretty toxic place with about 100 employees. The owner was big on controlling everyone's lives and required us to do unpaid trainings and seminars outside of work hours. They basically just relied on intimidating people so nobody would question it (I actually managed to end that right before I quit, but that's a separate story).
Anyway, we were at one of these mandatory meetings and at the end, he hands out a paper survey with questions about the company.
I initially wrote down lower scores that were my honest opinion, assuming they were just going to collect and tally them up.
Instead, the owner stands up and goes, "Okay, in terms of how the company compensates employees... who gave us an A?"
The room was dead silent except for one new girl who raised her hand. At that point, everyone in the room realized this was a test. So when he followed with "who gave us a B," every single person put their hand up. Everyone just changed their answers on the spot to survive the meeting.
But on one of the later questions, the owner asked who gave a 'C', and one woman actually raised her hand. The owner pulled her aside right after the meeting and aggressively questioned her about her opinion.
Fun fact: The owner was so obsessed with tracking us and demanding approval, but his own son who worked there was caught embezzling from him a year or two later.