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Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be possible to do linguistic analysis (ie. What they did to catch the Unabomber) to compare the language they used in the review vs how someone usually write in things like performance reviews, manager evaluations, emails, etc

Write your review, machine translate it into Mandarin, translate it back to English, and run it through a leet speak text filter

So you have to be a CIA spy to post a workplace review. Nice.

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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post #56

I just attempted to look at the reviews. There's an uncloseable pop-up telling you to log in. Normally I wouldn't bother, but curiousity got the best of me - I logged in with my Google OAuth. Not so fast - you haven't contributed to Glassdoor in the last 12 months, here's another annoying pop up and you cannot dismiss it until you do. Does anyone actually bother to use this dark pattern infused service?

Apparently this is the review they sued over - https://old.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/sv8yyv/kiwi_toy...

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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post #35

Once had a contract where my client wanted me to do "security work", which was initially meant to be for pentesting their clients, but it turned into me building their wifi auth system. At some point in the gig, one of their clients went to them asking them if it was possible to de-anonymize someone glassdoor review since someone still-employed worked with them. They then went to me to see if I could do it for them.…

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Kraken-Dig... https://www.kraken.com/ is doing it too.

This Google shows all the companies listed within Google’s index with the “Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action” flag; just kept removing the companies for the SERPs using the negative search operator until none were left. No idea why Glassdoor doesn’t just have a list of all the companies doing this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Glassdoor+Alert:+Employer+Le...

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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Glassdoor has posted a notice on ZURU's page regarding this: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.h... It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken ( https://www.kraken.com/ ) as you can see here: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Kraken-Digi... EDIT: If anyone from Glassdoor is reading this, please advise on a way to either unlink my profile from my ident…

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Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

#117

Would these companies have a case if an employee left refusing to sign the paper work agreeing to not talk shit? One company I left tied their severance package to a signature on that kind of agreement.

They aren't planning on suing for a breach of NDA. They're planning on suing under defamation law, which alone will cost the former employees tens of thousands, if not hundreds, to defend; if they can't defend their case - and as the article says, opinion is not automatically protected under New Zealand law - it appears that they will be suing for "increased recruitment costs", which sounds like it could be construed to run to arbitarily large numbers.

The point is to terrorise anyone out of criticising them, ever.

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

#118

The greatest thing I ever saw on Glassdoor was our company's Chief People Officer arguing with anonymous people in their reviews. It wasn't a response they were aggressively going them. That CPO soon moved on.

Arguing with anonymous people who already made their mind in a unfavourable way for you is a lost cause, not just on glassdoor but on every platform

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

#119

A decent outcome here would be if Glassdoor revealed all employers that attempt to go after former employees with alerts like the current one on the Zuru page.

They do, at least in some cases.

Another comment here suggests the following Google query:

  "Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action" site:glassdoor.com
Which does indeed highlight many other companies that have taken legal action against their reviewers.

Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

#120
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does Glassdoor actually have any business operations or webservers in NZ that are subject to this order? The court order itself is from a california court. They can't just tell that court to fuck off.

But why is a US court telling Glassdoor to do something because of a New Zealand law?

Congress already passed a law to prevent foreign libel judgements (well, ones which wouldn't pass 1st amendment muster), from being enforceable by US courts.

And now we just have US judges deciding they should apply NZ law without applying the 1st Amendment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act?wprov=sfla1

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