• JoBo@feddit.uk
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    7 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.

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      7 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!

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      7 months ago

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

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      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.

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      7 months ago

      Welcome to the point of the change. Kill off the liabilty & associated damages.

      Doesnt matter if the facts are true. In fact it matters more if they are!

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      7 months ago

      I expect their logic is their review “curation” racket is a sideshow and the real money is selling information to agencies and sales companies.

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    7 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.

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      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.

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

      Reputation slander and damages can get astronomical

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          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).

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            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.

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              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…