'Just because you have customers’ data doesn’t mean you should use it. And if you use customers’ information in ways they don’t expect, they’ll get upset!'
I honestly have no idea if #Glassdoor outed anything I've written because I can't remember if I ever posted anything there and I haven't been able to get logged into it for the last 10 years without it demanding a whole bunch of information from me first, which causes me to just give up and close the site.
#Privacy#Glassdoor#Anonymity: "Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews of employers, has recently begun adding real names to user profiles without users' consent, a Glassdoor user named Monica was shocked to discover last week.
"Time to delete your Glassdoor account and data," Monica, a Midwest-based software professional, warned other Glassdoor users in a blog. (Ars will only refer to Monica by her first name so that she can speak freely about her experience using Glassdoor to review employers.)
Monica joined Glassdoor about 10 years ago, she said, leaving a few reviews for her employers, taking advantage of other employees' reviews when considering new opportunities, and hoping to help others survey their job options. This month, though, she abruptly deleted her account after she contacted Glassdoor support to request help removing information from her account. She never expected that instead of removing information, Glassdoor's support team would take the real name that she provided in her support email and add it to her Glassdoor profile—despite Monica repeatedly and explicitly not consenting to Glassdoor storing her real name." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/
As somebody who works in support, I guffawed at this: “Glassdoor's support team would take the real name that she provided in her support email and add it to her Glassdoor profile”
If you work in support and your company asks you to do this, refuse to do so on principle.
I never thought I'd delete my #Glassdoor account, but here we are. A part of me wonders if the employers are winning as a result of this #enshittification.
Web 4.0 is the phase where you spend a lot of time deleting accounts from all the web 2.0 properties that enshittified or turned evil.
So long #glassdoor. I maybe logged in like twice in 10 years. Reviews of employers are a great idea, but it can't work with capitalists at the helm. Maybe a trustworthy labour or community org will pick it up.
I've gotten one or two good bits of intel from the site in the past, but never felt comfortable with the just-trust-us anonymity. And now this. Buh bye.
The TL;DR is: Glassdoor now requires your real name and
will add it to older accounts without your consent if they learn it,
and your only option is to delete your account. They do not care that this puts people at risk with their employers. They do not care that this seems to run counter to their own data-privacy policies.
#Glassdoor has pivoted from employer review site to LinkedIn competitor. Now when you log in they require you to enter your employment status, job title, employer, and full name. There's no way to skip these prompts. In addition, if you email their support team and include your name in your email, they will add it to your profile without your knowledge or consent. I just deleted my account. You should consider doing the same.
h/t @rhialto
Ref: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@rhialto/112090738952458213 #privacy#enshittification
Had to go to "That other site" to see a post by my employer and I saw this beautiful, diabolical post about #GlassDoor from Daniel Feldman who doesn't seem to be here.
I heard of a guy who was fired from a company and had a grudge
So he wrote fake Glassdoor reviews that were unrealistically POSITIVE
Overly high salaries, absurd benefits, fancy perks
They had trouble hiring for YEARS because candidates thought they were being lowballed!