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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Glassdoor and all other businesses that operate on the “holding companies hostage” model are trash, always have been, and people who use them should know better / expect this type of behavior. They are imo even lower than the Facebooks and twitters of the world.

Not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't know, holding companies hostage sounds great. Companies already hold employees hostage in many ways (life essentials, healthcare, etc).

When Glassdoor was just about employees holding companies' feet to the fire by posting about their shitty management practices, it was great. That it became just another profit-generator corporation is the fault of Capitalism, not its specific business model.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would agree, but Glassdoor didn't always used to be like this. When they started it was an extremely great premise, and people flocked to it. Glassdoor was to exiting a company as LinkedIn was to entering a company. But they got greedy, they dropped their (very high honestly) morals to try to cast a wider net. They started catering to businesses rather than the people providing the information.

I remember when they started enforcing accounts just to see salaries and companies and knew it was well over then. It used to be free information for anyone to check on a company, now it's just garbage. I don't trust the reviews, companies push employees to make fake reviews, and it's all trash.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Enshittification strikes again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

At my first full time job my supervisor specified that I could hang up on anyone who brought up their lawyer, used abusive language, or brought up the BBB.