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Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by fogetti »

justin66 wrote: post #317
fogetti wrote: post #292

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People here for some reason think that throwing around legal terms based on gut feelings is somehow the start of civil discussion. And I tend to correct those people. That's all. Extortion is a legal term and it's pretty well defined compared to other crimes. And this is not extortion. I can recommend all commenters who downvoted to go and denounce the offence of extortion and see for themselves what happens. I for o…

> Extortion is a legal term It also has a definition that 99% of the people you are communicating with, who are not lawyers, are more familiar with: the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. You're sperging out about the wrong thing to the wrong people.

Sperging out like you? It seems the point doesn't get through to you, so I spell it out for you: There Is NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER. And why the hell are you and other so hell bent on butting into something which according to your own words you are not lawyers so you have zero idea about, and still you seem to be not even interested in learning about the real life context and understanding the nuances?

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by heavyset_go »

Diederich wrote: post #247
everdrive wrote: post #51

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Online review systems are dead. Surely some must still be valid, but the well is poisoned, and nothing can be trusted.

My wife and I used to use Yelp at our go-to, day to day review platform. After some of my wife's customers directly experienced some serious WTF behaviour on Yelp's part, our trust in it was, as you said, completely broken. I'm not at all surprised that Glassdoor is playing similar games. The following isn't necessarily meant to disagree with you. A common thread is that Yelp and Glassdoor directly make money based o…

Google reviews are gamed by companies that have thousands of accounts to throw positive reviews at their clients pages.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by iKevinShah »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #26

I'll admit that I was bit by Glassdoor astroturfing. The company had an almost 4-star average review and the first three pages were glowing 4 and 5 star reviews. My first week at the company was nothing like the great workplace describe on Glassdoor. I'll spare the details, but suffice to say it was the most abusive workplace I've ever seen. Later, I realized that all of the 4 and 5 star Glassdoor reviews started aft…

> Glassdoor is not a place to find honest company reviews.

... which genuinely raises the question, what is a place to find honest company reviews except actually personally knowing someone working there?

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by bjt »

anonymousiam wrote: post #286
sdenton4 wrote: post #282

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Well, those who live under a modern government have skin in the game in the sense of paying taxes and relying on infrastructure, services, and regulation that make day to day civilization a thing.

True, but property owners pay property tax, which is a big part of where city revenue comes from. Allowing renters to vote on how the money is spent creates the same issue described in the grandparent post.

They pay it, just not directly. The percent borne by them vs the landlord will depend on how elastic the supply of housing is in that market.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-microeconomics/chap...

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by justin66 »

fogetti wrote: post #321
justin66 wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Extortion is a legal term It also has a definition that 99% of the people you are communicating with, who are not lawyers, are more familiar with: the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. You're sperging out about the wrong thing to the wrong people.

Sperging out like you? It seems the point doesn't get through to you, so I spell it out for you: There Is NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER. And why the hell are you and other so hell bent on butting into something which according to your own words you are not lawyers so you have zero idea about, and still you seem to be not even interested in learning about the real life context and understanding the nuances?

> NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER

That's obviously untrue, so I'm not sure why you'd write it, but well done with the capitalization. "Pay me or I will continue to publish this blurb which is damaging to you" is as clear a threat as can be.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by xenihn »

Blind reviews + levels.fyi salaries are the new Glassdoor for tech companies. I'm sure they will eventually face the same issues, but they're currently better (even if that doesn't mean much).

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

yawz wrote: post #256
baron_harkonnen wrote: post #240

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But I’m not sure it passes its own rules for advice worth listening to, which does create a bit of a paradox

1) It's his personal opinion 2) He doesn't have anything to gain from it

This is why I often append "reddit" to google searches. I find that opinions/help on Reddit is often far more useful because it's not motivated by personal gain.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by unishark »

sdenton4 wrote: post #282
anonymousiam wrote: post #262

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Sounds like an interesting book. I will check it out. I am wondering if in it, he addresses voting rights? Please don't mistake my retelling of history for bias when I say that before 150 years ago, voting in the United States was limited to white male property owners. The race and sex restrictions are not relevant to my point, but restricting voting to property owners was a prime example of ensuring "skin in the gam…

Well, those who live under a modern government have skin in the game in the sense of paying taxes and relying on infrastructure, services, and regulation that make day to day civilization a thing.

You're defining skin in the game as everyone "in the game", making the term rather unnecessary.

Skin in the game means a risk of losing some investment you brought to the table, not just losing the ongoing benefits and downsides the game itself provides.

Re: A warning about Glassdoor

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Post by fogetti »

justin66 wrote: post #325
fogetti wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sperging out like you? It seems the point doesn't get through to you, so I spell it out for you: There Is NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER. And why the hell are you and other so hell bent on butting into something which according to your own words you are not lawyers so you have zero idea about, and still you seem to be not even interested in learning about the real life context and understanding the nuances?

> NO THREAT WHATSOEVER IN THAT OFFER That's obviously untrue, so I'm not sure why you'd write it, but well done with the capitalization. "Pay me or I will continue to publish this blurb which is damaging to you" is as clear a threat as can be.

That's not a threat. You basically say that every negative comment written by people who has no connection whatsoever with Glassdoir is a purposeful threat by Glassdoor. How does that make any sense to you?
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