This is the reality of "anonymity" on the internet. Whatever promises to be anonymous today will invariably, inevitably, become reconstituted in the long-term.
Glassdoor not so anonymous
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#182Very uncool. I’m going to comment on the mentality of using glassdoor instead.
I’ve used it to gauge the industry many times, research companies a few times. I think I’ve only ever left feedback myself once, and it was positive.
But I never had an actual expectation of total privacy. I figure you could piece identities together based on the posting date alone, especially if it is negative
If you’re an engineer worth hiring, you know that this layer of anonymity is just to prevent it from showing up on your grandma’s linkedin feed; or in a more paranoid way, your vengeful ex-boss easily googling your comments.
If someone really wants to find you, of course they will. I take a bit of a riskier tack. I’m usually just me… we’ll see how it goes in the end
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
DNS records of your VPN or corporate work station would be pretty easy. You can line then up with when the review was posted. Then investigate their workstation more "thoroughly".
If it’s a managed corporate laptop that uses Chrome, then they could remotely check the browser history, likely directly to the review itself.
I have actually done exactly that, copy over the sqlite broswer history sqlite database and run a query to generate a browsing history report.
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#184Once 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.…
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
And they fire the wrong person. And the real poster adds another review. It can almost be a skit.
- Oct 12, 2022 "They fired Bobby!!! Bobby's been working with us for 10 years and they fired him overnight?? Told you that place is bonkers!"
- Oct 14, 2022 "Mona's down, I repeat Mona's down!! This is a sinking ship! Do not attempt to join this place!!!"
Meanwhile in the C-suite's office.
"Seriously, who is this guy?"
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
presumably you simoly wait for someone from the glassdoor sales team to contact you , the owner. they will present is as a review optimization strategy. this is how yelp did it back in the day. i dont know if glassdor does or did it, just pointing out other review sites did do it and never posted it on their "pricing" or "services" page for employers...
> this is how yelp did it back in the day. Yelp no longer does this?
Yelp now just send oven a couple of large men with baseball bats who say “Nice business you got here. Would be a shame if something happened to it…” to cut out the foreplay.
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#186Why you should never leave Glassdoor reviews using; - Your real name - Your real email address - Your real salary and job title - Your normal vocabulary and idioms - Any of your devices (as in, go to an internet cafe or something) They can deanonymize as much as they like all they're going to find is that "dbcooper42069[at]hotmail", using non-region specific language, took a very dim view of company X's management st…
> - Your normal vocabulary and idioms I think that this one is way harder to avoid than you might think, short of having someone else write the review for you (which might not be a bad idea!).
Yeah it's not easy, having someone else write it like you said is probably the easiest way.
In a few reviews I've left (using different accounts etc for each one to avoid fingerprinting!) I've written the review myself, changed it to a formal register, thesaurus-ed a few words, and also threw in a few red herrings to make which team I was from appear ambiguous (for example, whine about sales tooling/CRM when you're an engineer that has nothing to do with sales).
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their proof (or lack thereof) would generally be evaluated at the trial stage. This is a pre-trial procedure, so it's mostly take at face value. If another party so moves, they could ask the court to stop the plaintiff, and the judge will make a decision. But that's not automatic--somebody has to specifically ask for it.
You're right, but this is still a very funny sentence that only a lawyer could take seriously. "Zuru didn't just allege it, they DECLARED it!"
I get why it sounds funny to us, but it's mainly a highly jargon-y form of language used for motions in court. When you're writing this stuff, you're expected to phrase yourself in the appropriate fashion.
There are also certain specific legal terms and phrases that work kind of like reserved words or functions in a programming langauge, because they invoke a specific legal effect in how the court needs to handle them. If you don't phrase your motion properly, your motion could be denied because it. Or maybe the judge let's it slide, but you piss them off and wear down their patience.
Anyway... For us, it sounds funny because we're ignorant of it. Just like how programming languages may sound funny to non-programmers: "If X then Y else Z" is similar enough to English, but it'll make the kids giggle if you ask them to read it aloud.
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#189Contact us page for Zuru Toys. I just sent them a short message explaining that previously I was not aware of their company but now this issue is the only thing that I know about them and it is not a good look. https://zurutoys.co/contact/
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, but this is still a very funny sentence that only a lawyer could take seriously. "Zuru didn't just allege it, they DECLARED it!"
Sounds very SovCit
I think your inference may be backwards... Sovereign Citizen types sound like this because they're aping "legalese" in an attempt to sound authoritative to ignorant people.
But this weird, kinda archaic, jargony, overly-specific English is just how regular motions are written, by real lawyers in regular courts.
(And yes, it does sound funny, if you're not used to reading/writing it.)