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Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Why is it impossible for communities to emerge organically in 2024? Why must you raise and spend $20m on marketing alone? I found Reddit literally through organic word-of-mouth when Digg went under. Never saw an ad for it in my life. Why does a Glassdoor alternative inherently need marketing?

The thing is you did find reddit via marketing, its just the marketing hit the people before it hit you, that guy that told you about it or the one that told him was the one that marketing got into reddit, which got them to a critical mass that word of mouth can take over.

Reddit's early employees were very busy with sock accounts reposting things from other sites, commenting on them, then messaging the creators on the original sites "hey your thing was posted on reddit!".

Marketing comes in lots of forms.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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The enshittification of the world continues apace.

I think you are fundamentally wrong. The world is getting better all of the time. Look at life 10 years ago, 30 years ago, 100 years ago, 200, years ago, etc. Life expectancy is up, people are richer, people are healthier, we have an amazing number of choices, we have amazing devices, etc. I think your view is very distorted and you really should check your facts. Here are some questions you should ask yourself: 1) W…

ok, I'll bite:

1) What do you mean when you say “enshitification”? How is the world getting worse? By what measure?

More violence, more bigotry, paying more and getting less not because things cost more but because stock price, minimum wage not tracking inflation while political donations do, Donald-Fucking-Trump as POTUS, cyber attacks at a truly breathtaking pace, healthcare and the entire fucking tragedy that is in the US, women's rights, body autonomy, a stock market where market makers can legally and literally steal money from everyone else, CU literally legalizing outright bribes to congress, the rise of US Nazis, the entire fucking state of Texas, judges who ignore any and all legal standing and common sense that enact the stupidest most regressive horse shit, corporations dumping chemicals into the environment by the metric ton and "suffering" profits for it, and much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much more.

How about you step outside sometime and look at the world you're in?

2) Are there any counter examples which could disprove your thesis?

There are counters, but they are generally outliers in practically every instance. The simple fact they are outliers is the entire point I'm making.

3) How does the world today compare to the world at other times?

Tech could have been a great thing, but it's being used to abuse people at a greater scale, now, so win?

3a) Why is the world better today?

I would say something like better medical care and that care does exist, but only for the rich since most people cannot afford it. Why? Human greed.

3b) What was better before? Very little.

At no point did I say I pined for the 1860s. You're confusing me with Republicans.

I'm just tired of the human model of "shit on everyone I can, because fuck you, I'm getting mine". I'm fucking tired of people committing crimes for decades, and when caught saying, "I'm sorry". I'm tired of watching a country kill another countries CIVILIANS because they can.

Look at the world's choices.

A 15th carrier group or feeding kids in school?

Tax breaks for those that need them the least, while those with less money pay more or the reverse?

Food Stamps and the ever forward marching of less and less being spent on this very real need.

Social Security. A system you're forced to pay into, while congress plays fucking Lucy from the Peanuts with the benefits. Even going so far as to label them as "entitlements" in the shittiest possible definition of the word instead of entitlements, because its fucking owed.

How about the constant lies and horse shit propagated by media? Not truth, not facts, just bias with the sole goal of selling ad space and consequences be damned.

Maybe I just wanted more of humans than the current "fuck those in need" or "shit on minorities to make ourselves feel better", etc.

I'm truly glad you find the world a better place than I do.

YMMV and I sincerely hope it does, but let's put down the PollyAnna-tinted glasses. That's not the world humans built and pretending it is, is simply disingenuous or wholly ignorant.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Employers and recruiters are always bewildered when I say I don't have a LinkedIn account, or a public Github profile (I have a few tiny open source projects I maintain, but they are all pseudonymous) - and this is exactly why. I don't want people creeping any kind of "profile" of me. Ever.

My take is exactly the opposite: the more people who know that I exist, the more likely I am to hear of jobs that might interest me. Let them creep all over my profile: so far the only downside is that I have a pile of messages to sort through and say "no, thanks" to.

This is a big thing, too. The spam of those messages definitely makes it a needle in a haystack, even for a "loose potential match". 99%+ of the messages in my inbox are for short to mid term onsite contracts on the east coast as an engineer when I am a Product Manager in the PNW.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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i did the same and was so, so infuriated by that.

My name is Joe Blow and my job is a Glassdoor Bankruptcy Advocate located in Antarctica.

Nice to meet you Joe Blow. My name is John Jacobs, Vandelay Industries.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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All US tech companies ever, they are out there to doing the right thing until money rolls in then profits take the priority over quality and they go down the shitter. 1) Evernote 2) Triplebyte 3) Glassdoor 4) Let's not forget Quora

Are you sure it’s just profits? People need money to support themselves. Companies hire people and have to pay them because they can’t work for free. This means companies need revenue. Now, with traditional companies, customers paid for products and services. This revenue allowed companies to pay employees. With the companies you listened, they gave away their product “for free”. That meant they had to get revenue so…

Recently, Evernote limited the free tier and increased pricing. This means that now the users pay for the product and this is very good. In fact, they added a lot of new features and improved performance.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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> Let them squirm. The risk here isn't that your snooping boss feels a bit uncomfortable. The risk is that your snooping boss now thinks they'd better not send you on that expensive training course or assign you that big, important project where success could get you promoted. And that you'll never get a chance to address their fears, as they want to keep the snooping secret.

> success could get you promoted "Could" is such a big word. It means nothing, but it is intended to be very valuable. Get that promotion in writing. Otherwise it's a carrot to dangle upon you. > they'd better not send you on that expensive training course You know what's worse than training people and then these people leaving? Not training them and then these people staying. You insist on giving me reasons to stay…

Those are naive arguments. Most people need employment, and most people want to get better wages by climbing the ladder.

Get it in writting? When in the history of the mankind it ever happened? Not to anyone I know, and I would never make such promises as well. Promotion depends on a lot of things, and promising something like that in writing is stupid.

And once you're tagged as someone who might be leaving, some employers really may prefer no to invest in you. Why should they? You might leave.

The whole argument of "the risk of training and they staying" depends entirely on how you gauge risk. In this case, if you have positive evidence that they are unhappy, then you know that the risk of leaving higher than staying.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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>Find someone you trust - on social media, a new site, or a newsletter. Get the info from them. OMG please don't do this - it's more gamed/scammy than online reviews: people will routinely post sponsored content disguised as personal recommendations. The FTC occasionally cracks down on it (or sends warning labels) but it's still so ubiquitous.

If you are following an "influencer" peddling products, yes, but there are plenty of good resources available. The choice is between "scam" and "bias".

If you think this is only a problem with "influencers peddling products" then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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