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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 89 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've never used Glassdoor but I know people who have. Seems like a great way for them to destroy their own business.

Even if I were inclined to do so, I would absolutely NOT do so if I had to provide my real name. They will be the one company to never ever get their user db hacked/leaked, right? I can trust all current and future executives there to safeguard that info, right?

I can't see how anyone with legit negative things to say against a current employer is going to feel comfortable using the service going forward. When enshittification bites back!

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 59 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that the names weren't provided by users to glassdoor. If glassdoor stumbles across someone's real name then they have automatically attached it to the user profile. They're doxxing their users so now people have to worry if they ever used the service.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

No disagreement here...

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's 100% calculated. The controllers of glassdoor decided to kill the site, likely persuaded with money, coercion or both.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Exit strategy? "I got what I wanted out of it, so I may as well take the rubber mask off."

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Euge Johnson

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ansell Granger

[–] user91@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's our duty to give them the shittiest of fake names

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

So, Poopy McPoopface?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which will be followed by letting companies pay to see who to retaliate against.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Don't let rogue actors ruin your business!

See who said what when you purchase a premium unlocker for this review"

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 11 months ago

Don't you already need your company email for verification? Mapping company email to real name is obviously trivial for your employer...

[–] LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I've already changed mine to Ivan E. Wreckshun

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

Glassdoor always seemed like a trap to me. What better way to find (potentially) disloyal people to add to the in-house blacklist or layoff file than to set up a site where you can collect negative reviews of workplaces and sufficient data that identities could be ascertained?

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Give em your boss' name.