Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users.
  • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    I just went in and manually edited my display name to my previous asshole of a boss. Two can play this game. If they want to get rid of anonymous content, then let them deal with poisoned content.

    • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      This screams liability protection, your name change is both logged so they can transfer liability to you.

      Reputation slander and damages can get astronomical

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Uh, reminder that these giant corporations don’t shop for lawyers like you or I would have to, they’re already on retainer. It would literally cost them nothing they’re not already paying to sue someone (except their reputation, which they’ve already thrown away).

          • CopHater69@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Right, but you’re not talking about Glass Door. You’re talking about another cooperation reacting to information on Glass Door. Most companies in the US are small businesses without the resources to go after people on websites in general, and if you’re obfuscated your identity before posting on glassdoor, then you just double to tripled the price of the lawsuit in lawyer time filing motions to uncover your identity.

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              You’re talking about another cooperation reacting to information on Glass Door.

              by wanting to take legal action. They want to transfer liability from Glass Door to the individual. So yes, my point stands…

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I put a review up for my previous employer a while back. My whole profile uses fake data. Even in my review, since it would be very obvious who I was, I was light on details and generalized as much as I could and used false dates for when I was hired/left.

  • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    That’s a fantastically efficient way to destroy their business. There’s no way to get honest reviews of employers from employees who know their identities will be exposed whether they consent or not. Doesn’t even matter if the review is after leaving that job, future employers can go nosing too.

    Absolute techbro-brane gold.

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      A former employer actually did send lawyers after me for a bad Glassdoor review. The dumb thing is that it wasn’t even my review.

      This is beyond stupid.

    • Sylver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      This is what happens right before the major money holders abandon ship. There’s no way they don’t know this is business-suicide. I bet they got a big payday from some companies that paid Glassdoor to shoot itself in the face!

    • Igloojoe@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Good way to get yourself blackballed from the industry if you give a bad complaint from previous employer.

  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
    3·
    8 months ago

    Exactly how do Glassdoor expect people to give earnest reviews of their employers (which is literally the core of their business) if those people can’t trust Glassdoor to not to throw them under the bus when they give honest reviews of malicious employers?

    Talk about sabotaging your own business model - idiots.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Exactly how do Glassdoor expect people to give earnest reviews of their employers

      They don’t. The enshitification has begun and they only care about short-term profits now that they’ve built up a user base.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      8 months ago

      earnest reviews of their employers (which is literally the core of their business

      I don’t understand the need for a site like this. I just assume that my employer is going to suck in standard corporate suck fashion.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I’ve had a couple of good jobs where I was treated well and compensated well all around. Companies like that would be glad to have reviews from happy employees visible to the public on a trustworthy review site.

      • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.

          Thank you for saying this.

          I don’t get how so many people are so willing to just pull down their pants and bend over, instead of pushing back.

      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        There’s the normal suck, then there’s “I (been there 12 years) got passed up for promotion to replace my boss who retired because the owner’s nephew who worked with us for a few years (sucked and “volentarely” left 6 years ago) decided their cyptoscheme wasn’t working out and needed a job, and that was the highest one paying one avalible.”

        Or the "Sally got verably harassed dailiy and they did nothing because the harrasser has been there 30 years. ‘He’s just an old man in his early 50s, older gentlemen call ladies nicknames like sweetcakes, honey, or cutie all the time. They also like to rub peoples shoulders to show affec to help relive the tension and promote a healthier work environment’ "

        • BleatingZombie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          And sometimes it’s not just corporate suck. I’ve literally had the CIO of a construction contractor berate me on the phone before I had started. Needless to say I didn’t take their offer

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Same. Got screamed at before the interview. don’t know why I even bothered going, maybe just curious how fucked up the place would be.

            Left them a bad Google maps review which was kinda fun since they had zero reviews before I left one. They left a screaming reply to it hahah

              • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                Was a long time ago but I remember it was something small like I had used my old snail mail address on my resume vs my cover-letter.

                But hey they bought me lunch so it wasn’t a total lost and I got to see all the people running the place act like total assholes to each other. So dinner and a show.

            • BleatingZombie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              Haha. I really want to do the first part, but relatively local to my region. I’d rather not give that out right now :\

      • normalexit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Some are much more capable of disguising it during the interview process.

        In the tech industry around the pandemic there was the great resignation and companies were tripping over themselves to employ as many people as possible. It was great then because you had so many options and they were all seemingly similar job descriptions.

        Now the site is shitty and getting a job is terrible. Woo capitalism!

        • meep_launcher@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          8 months ago

          Frankly I never trusted Glassdoor. I assume most reviews are made by the companies HR department to lie about how great it is. I just need to look at the reviews of the companies I’ve worked for to see that it’s 99% bullshit.

          Don’t trust employers. They lie to you and underpay you.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    This is one of the most obvious potential cases of purposeful sabatoge. They were probably bribed by other big businesses to destroy their reputation so people would stop using the site.

    There’s nothing businesses hate more than their workers having negotiating power, and wage transparency gives them more power than they had before. There’s a reason why it’s considered “rude” in the US to discuss wages with co-workers; I always make a point to discuss my wage with all of my co-workers, since it’s illegal for businesses to prevent that discussion.

    In most other countries, it’s the norm to openly discuss your wages; unions are also more common in other countries. It’s just standard toxic workplace cultures trying to prevent people from getting paid what they’re worth, or god forbid, forming a union.

    • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      In what countries is it custom to openly discuss salary? In Germany and most if not all countries I’ve been to professionally it is not the norm. This is of course bad for transparency/employees and good for employers.

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Where I live we don’t really discuss salaries and I think that mostly comes down to society being tricked into believing it’s a bad thing. However our national statistics agency has made salary statistics public, which means anyone easily check their salary range and see if they’re being underpaid. I actually prefer that to discussing with co-workers because you end up getting a much better picture of your industry.

        • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          In my country I’m only aware of statistics published by a newspaper (source may be statista, some agency or a job portal). I find the values weird however as I earn way above the stated value for my general description. I’m in a bit of a niche however so that might work to my benefit. The statistics still feel like ‘expectation management’ to me though.

      • DrM@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        All of scandinavia. There are public registers where you can look up the salary of everyone for norway, sweden and finland. When these registers were introduced, the salaries were normalized across the whole population

        • teotwaki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          In Denmark, I’m part of a union which publishes salary stats for every possible job title, management responsibility, education, in a fairly convoluted matrix. Still, this allows me to easily negotiate with companies and see how well they pay. There might be something organised by the government, but I’ve never had a need for it.

      • anguo@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        In China, “How much do you make?” Is right up there with “What’s your name?”.

        Pretty disarming for unsuspecting foreigners.

  • purrtastic@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Glassdoor “may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties”

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Went to my glass door app to check and the first question was “what is your name? First last?”