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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 89 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

No disagreement here...

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Perhaps not to destroy it but to make a new business model, selling the ability to get names for lawsuit purposes, and rather than users are going after a profitable extortion racket like yelp did where in exchange for a one time (or even monthly) fee will protect your business from bad reviews.

That's my guess, i couldn't read the article (paywall)

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)

Euge Johnson

[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ansell Granger

[–] user91@lemmy.world 27 points 7 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 7 months ago

So, Poopy McPoopface?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"Don't let rogue actors ruin your business!

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

[–] LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I've already changed mine to Ivan E. Wreckshun

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 7 months ago

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

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My name is John Doe, it's totally my real name.

[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice to meet ya, John. My name is Nunya Bidnez.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

If i... Wanna rate work sites...as less than stars of five...

Its nunaya bidness!!

And if she wanna help the weak and tell it like it be then

Its nunaya bidness

-salt and peppa

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

My name is totally the ex-manager everyone hated before he left.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

No way! I've met 6 other John Does lately!

Of course, my name is Jonathan Jacobian Djengle, I was adopted by the Heimerschmidt family. You can call me John.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No way, that's my name too!

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wait, do you have an issue when you go out where people always shout?

[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Wow, your name is my name too.

[–] drwho@beehaw.org 10 points 7 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 7 months ago

Give em your boss' name.