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Re: Glassdoor not so anonymous

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Post by ulimn »

4dregress wrote: post #290
Mandatum wrote: post #39

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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".

That's why you shouldn't use your work computer for anything but work!

Yes, it's important to separate work you do for your employer from your personal life and everything else basically.

I never understood people who use their work/school machines to do stuff that could hurt their employer/school. Or even just to cause them potential problems.

But of course, the other way around is true imo: I won't use my personal devices for work - but that's mostly to prevent me from giving free extra work time to my employer.

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Post by badpun »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #279
heavyset_go wrote: post #215

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I've heard some pretty simultaneously funny and Orwellian stories about this, mostly about people being fired for looking at porn using work laptops and the specific porn they were looking at. Don't use work computers to look at porn, your employers already know about it.

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Lol I nominate the above to the title of most entitled and out of touch comment of the month. How is this "basic human need" if online porn didn't even exist before 1990?

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Post by DoubleGlazing »

Every review I have posted on Glassdoor has been with a disposable email address, using my own device and using a public WiFi hotspot. I once had an employer try to get legal on me because I went to work for a rival after they laid me off - so I know some employers can be petty like that.

I trust Glassdoor to keep their promise of not releasing my ID voluntarily, but when courts get involved all bets are off.

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Post by Mandatum »

cubancigar11 wrote: post #176
Someone1234 wrote: post #14

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That's actually a fantastic response. - Reminds reviewers to avoid libel, since it may undergo legal review. - Tells potential employees or customers that this is how the company responds to bad press/negativity (i.e. disproportionately). - Doesn't subject Glassdoor to potential libel since the statement is objectively true (see court records). Although I won't get too positive about Glassdoor as I've read negative r…

I was hired via a consultancy firm (Ness Technologies) that would have me work in PayPal chennai office back in 2012. A new CEO came and basically reduced work force drastically, the worst mass layoffs I have ever seen. The environment then changed to worse rapidly etc. etc. I decided to quit the toxic environment. Contractually I was supposed to get 2 months of basic pay, but Ness and Paypal conspired together and c…

PayPal wouldn’t open themselves up to that risk. 100% the type of shit I see consultancies pull, especially smaller ones or regional ones. Any with HQ in US wouldn’t risk it.

Unless the 2 contacts from each company had a personal vendetta against you. Then I can see it.

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Post by HeavyStorm »

Never trusted the fact that reviews on glassdoor AREN'T anonymous...

Oh sure, they hide your name and email, but they have it. A good secret isn't a secret if someone knows it.

I always wondered if they should - and now I wonder if they could - have really anonymous reviews. Just don't tie a review to a user. Sure, ask users to create accounts, validate them, but once they submit a review, it's store without details.

This would make it impossible to respond to subpoenas such as this. And my question now is, could they?

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Post by yieldcrv »

yieldcrv wrote: post #254
heavyset_go wrote: post #249

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Try to register an email address using a host that won't have you flagged as a malicious user should you use an account with that host to sign up for major company's services like Glassdoor. It's virtually impossible to use Tor to register an email address without activating JavaScript, and the email hosts that allow it are very sketchy, and my personal suspicions are that many of them are blatant honeypots.

Both Whonix and Tails are okay for the javascript attack vector. Only TorBrowser by itself got escaped via JS.

(even then I only sparingly allow browser javascript on Whonix or Tails)

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Post by _archon_ »

mlyle wrote: post #98
lostcolony wrote: post #42

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Yeah. Definitely Streisand effected themselves. Wonder if they can sue their own legal counsel for causing themselves so much monetary loss (given that's the grounds they're using to de-anonymize the reviewers)?

Yah. The reviews didn't even look that bad. Nothing like getting lots of press for suing critical employees to improve your rep.

The... remaining reviews may not look that bad. I imagine a scenario may exist where a fired employee has to sign an NDA and take down their review to receive severance or suchlike.

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Post by stareatgoats »

closewith wrote: post #314
stareatgoats wrote: post #268

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Correct me if I'm wrong but if the assumption here is that the EU prevents employers from reading private correspondence of employees then I find nothing to back that up. On the contrary, an employer in the EU explicitly seems to have such rights, given they jump through a few formal hoops first: https://www.grcworldforums.com/business/can-employers-legall...

It depends on the country in question. In Ireland, for example, any workplace surveillance must be necessary, legitimate, and proportional. The employee also must be informed in advance of who, what, how, and when they may be surveilled. It is very hard to see the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC - the body which handles workplace disputes) accepting that identifying a user on Glassdoor would meet the test of bein…

OK thanks interesting, although I would like to add that I did not address trying to identify and punish reviewers on Glassdoor, which may or may not be illegal all over Europe depending on the nature of the review. That point I tried to make was that the GP was exaggerating when painting the US as an outlier regarding the rights of employees of not to be monitored.

The US is more "employer-friendly" if you like, and much less complicated to fire employees (boo!) compared to Europe - yes. But generally not categorically different when it comes to the right of employers to snoop on their employees, which people here might want to be aware of.

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