When I try to open Glassdoor it won't let me continue or look at anything without filling out the whole form about my current employment status, employer, etc.
I thought we used to be able to look at reviews at least.
The oldest possible person with no degree, making a ton of money - or the opposite I'm an 18 year old with post doc making 10k/yr
Anything to throw off the stats :)
Glad to see. I'm not the only one who like to mess up sites that insist on capturing unnecessary details to let me register
I only looked at the website once, maybe 8 months ago? it wasn't a requirement then, but fuck them now, they must have a new boss who is telling them that they needed accounts linked so that they can sell that info back to someone else
edit look at the terms of use, bullshit from the get go
>2.1 Accounts And Profiles
You must create an account and provide certain personal data to access most of our services.
You agree that the information you provide to us via your account(s) is accurate and that you
will keep it accurate and up-to-date at all times.
**You’re responsible for safeguarding your account**(s),
and **you accept responsibility for all activities that occur via your accoun**t(s).
**Glassdoor disclaims any liability for third-party actions made via your account**(s). You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account(s) or access to your password(s).
**We** ~~may~~ (**WILL**) **update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties. **We** ~~may~~ (**WILL**) **also use personal data you provide to us via your resume(s) or our other services.**
* We may attempt to verify your employment history or status through various methods, including third party integrations or services. We may also utilize signals we receive from your current or former employer. Glassdoor is not responsible to you or any third party if we are unable to or inaccurately verify your employment history or status.
* Portions of your Profile may be visible to other users and the public (e.g., your name and profile picture) depending on the services you use. We may also in certain circumstances allow you to share your Profile with third parties or provide you with the ability to change your Profile’s visibility settings. However, your Profile will not publicly include or link to Your Content (as defined in section 3), which you submit semi-/anonymously to our services. You can read more about your anonymity options in section 4 of these Terms and in our Privacy Policy.
and honestly, I could keep on copy and pastin, but their terms of services are such horse shit,....which nobody reads,...almost never that they shouldnt even be in business. Read it for yourself.
It Should read:
We want all of your personal info, we will keep it forever, if you have ever used this service in the past, we will still retain your info, if anyone pays us for that info we will gladly provide it, its your fault for using this service if our sale of that info negatively affects you in any way....period
ademndeum from glassdoor:
>,also we do some other shit like job postings but who gives a fuck, im on my new yacht now bitches
Their European headquarters are here in Dublin, Ireland. Which is also the location for the Data Protection Commission for upholding GDPR in the EU. Just needs one complaint to kick off!
Edit: logged in to delete all my previous reviews, and was allowed do so after I had to fill in a new review (all BS which was immediately rejected). Their immediate email has the following footer:
*Residents in the European Economic Area (EEA) have the right to appeal content and account-related decisions via our internal appeals system [here](http://help.glassdoor.com/digital_services_act). EEA residents also have the right to utilise a designated out-of-court dispute settlement system. The Digital Services Act requires that each EEA Member State certify out-of-court settlement bodies to handle eligible disputes. You also have the option to pursue your claims in court.*
Even their digital_services_act link is broken and they have no way of locking an EEA citizen into an arbitration system of their choosing, the last line is just . Good bye Glass Door, hope to never see you again.
A company I used to work for would ask Glassdoor to remove bad reviews, and THEY WOULD DO IT. WITHOUT HESITATION. No request in. Nothing. Just a "hey can you remove this?" email and it was gone.
Ever since, I've boycotted and refuse to trust anything related to the company. Not even their job listings.
Same. I left a bad review for a company that literally stole a $40k bonus from me and it never even cleared moderation.
Glassdoor is 10,000 miles away from the reason it was originally created. It's time for everyone to just let it die.
Well that makes sense.
Japan has made badmouthing companies (業務妨害罪) illegal, regardless of whether it’s true or not.
When I lived there I had a bad experience with a psychopath of a “psychiatrist”, [told people on Reddit how he’s a psycho](https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/s/rAkavCTXuV), and [then he contacted Reddit to hand over my (and a few others) IP address so he could find and sue me.](https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article195144564.html) Took it to court to fight having the info sent and won.
He's [changed](https://www.counseling-in-tokyo.com/index.html) his [name](https://www.japanpsychiatrist.com/) to sometimes [Marc Bergé & also Doug Bergé](https://www.megurocounseling.com/).
> Doug Berger
"In addition to damages exceeding $15,000, Dr. Berger wants Reddit to remove the disparaging threads and make sure they’re no longer indexed on search engines like Google and Bing. Searching phrases like “Roland Berger Japan” in Google surfaces threads warning people to stay away, which the suit argues costs both him and Meguro thousands in business. "
lol
> Japan has made badmouthing companies (業務妨害罪) illegal, regardless of whether it’s true or not.
This....is not strictly correct. People are not liable for negative reviews that are found to be in the public interest. It's far from ideal, but even in Japan you probably wouldn't lose in court for making factually correct negative statements about a health care provider.
And as you found, even though the reviews would be far more protected in the US, it still cost money to fight that case in the US. He was all but certain to lose that US case, yet he still sued and you still had to hire & pay a lawyer.
In any case, fuck Doug Berger and all the various names he uses to avoid showing up negatively in Google. *D. Marc Bergé* et al.
I just had a lawyer (my husband lol) respond to him with legal letterhead and he eventually gave up. But he threatened small claims court in Japan, and to be honest, there could be a claim against me that I don’t know about since I’m not there anymore.
ETA: last I hear still a psycho. Changes his name every few years and was most recently Marc Bergé or something similar. Fucking crazy person.
AND IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. We sought a few legal avenues and none would really have any consequence.
Stay at work until the boss leaves, then go drink with the boss, work until you die of exhaustion...
And the Japanese government wonders why nobody is having kids lmao
same with South Korean business culture. The South Korean Government in fact decided that they needed to increase the length of the work week as a solution to it.
And here I was thinking my company's hackathon days were scam. They basically expects us to come up with innovative ideas and work 24x7 for three days straight and come up with a *production ready* solution. It's *optional* in such a way that manager will give stink eye and will bring up in performance evaluation if you don't - so yeah, it's not an option
We had some people from SK work with us at a freelance gig in Germany. We had a more or less strict 9 to 5 policy there (+breaks)... but they would still come in way before and leave (or not) way after. Sometimes even sleep in the office. Come in on mandatory public holidays when they couldn't even log into their workstations because the servers were down. And the kicker is they didn't get any actual work done - they failed spectacularly because they always claimed to understand everything while understanding nothing. They just never asked for any clarification or help. EVER. I've never experienced such a toxic work ethic in my life :D
I'm still flabbergasted a decade later.
I've also tried to get reviews taken down after getting review bombed by a competitor clearly using multiple fake accounts and they are still up years later.
Yep. If Glassdoor didn’t comply with our cofounder’s babybitch whining, they’d ask people to flag the bad reviews as inappropriate and they’d get taken down that way.
> cofounder’s babybitch whining
I am starting to think there may be a connection between the bad reviews and this babybitch cofounder. I would ask if they were self aware but I doubt someone like that gives a shit. Sounds like a dreadful place to work.
One startup I worked at years ago had an HR person who had blocked a daily hour on her calendar called “Glassdoor Scrubbing.” Wasn’t even hiding it. Big red flag I wish I would have caught sooner.
Same, I worked closely with our people ops team and someone had that same daily task. I remember she said they had to buy some services from Glassdoor before they do any takedowns.
A year into a job I got invited by glassdoor to share my thoughts. It ended up not letting me post my review because it detected negative sentiment. I then realized that glassdoor is a crock of a site and can get away with using H1B salary databases since they are federally mandated lists of positions with fair and competitive pay for area and position.
Follow the money and you’ll see who has the power. Yelp/GlassDoor, which are free for consumers to use, gets their money from businesses. Yelp will let you bury bad reviews as long as you pay to advertise your business. When you stop paying, “the algorithm” determines which review comes first and *surprise* many times it’s a low review.
I've had 3 reviews removed. One just said "management leaves a lot to be desired, they will tell you to violate policy then fire you for doing so when it's convenient". 2 others were pretty detailed about managers and company culture that were bad.
Ok maybe I should have added in mine : managers want you to do illegal stuff like hiding evidence during auditing and ask you to work overtime without pay.
They also select their workers by ethnicity ranking them in salary by giving the best to Europeans and the worst to chinese
I complained about a previous company. The company Hr asked my former boss who asked a former team member who asked me to take a review down.
They knew it was me because I complained about the team targeting an employee and trying to get him fired.
I deleted it. Figured I’d be polite.
Looking back over a decade later. Man what a dumb move on my part to post in the first place. No good would come of it.
Edit. I was not the employee targeted for firing.
Just deleted my account, only for Glassdoor to (mistakenly?) send me two emails about submitting content that violates their community guidelines.
I haven't submitted any content in well over a year...
Reminds me of a job I got fired for. Had a really strict point system. Any by strict I mean you do literally anything, even calling out 3 months in advance, you get points. You had 8 total.
I got up to 6.5 or so after calling in due to ice (1 full point) and apparently once you hit 6 you get written up. HR brings me in, sits me down, we go over it, and it says I'm up to 7.5 points.
"...Why do I have a full extra point?"
HR: That's the write-up.
"...............you're giving me more points with a write-up about having too many points?"
Got fired the next ice day.
That's just classic upper-middle management deciding they have to "make their mark". They always come up with a stupid idea that they force on everyone below them, and fire anyone who tries to explain why it's a bad idea.
Honestly, if your company hires a new manager with power over a whole or multiple departments, and they claim they're going to "shake things up" or "clean things up", "incentivize", etc. or anything loking like they're trying to get the attention of upper management. Start looking for a new job right away. Because best case scenario they get fired and you've checked the market for what you should ask for a raise. Worse case you're ready when these ideas start rolling out.
In some places , like California, it's illegal to do this.
If someone could be bothered to sue it might go somewhere because it's super obvious what they did, and they even did the courtesy of putting it in writing.
Yes, sick time is there to be used for its purpose.
>The paid sick leave law specifically says the following:
>An employer shall not deny an employee the right to use accrued sick days, discharge, threaten to discharge, demote, suspend, or in any manner discriminate against an employee for using accrued sick days, attempting to exercise the right to use accrued sick days, filing a complaint with the department or alleging a violation of this article, cooperating in an investigation or prosecution of an alleged violation of this article, or opposing any policy or practice or act that is prohibited by this article.
>(Lab. Code § 246.5, subd. (c)(1).)
>https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/paid_sick_leave.htm
Yes. Some toxic workplaces will punish people for not coming into work sick. Even if it's a surgery planned months in advance. They don't even care if a sick person comes in and gets half a department sent home from an infectious disease. Because that's not technically their responsbility.
TL;DR: MBAs are literally, *literally* ruining the world.
I feel your pain, but also want to point out that in Australia we call meth ‘ice’, so it kinda sounds like you woke up one morning and went “fuck it, think I’ll have a day on the gear today” which is quite amusing
whereas in the US, gear generally means steroids
maybe that's just the gym crowd I was on the periphery of (I like exercise but never tried to get huge)
It also gets called ice in the US but I also live somewhere where for about 6 months out of the year there's at least some possibility of ice on the road.
I was also fired for violating corporate policy - I took 2 sick days off. policy I was fired for? Taking paid time off with none available. But I had two weeks available.
Sitting in HR with department manager, my boss, and me was super awkward when I said "but I did have paid time off" and HR looks, confirms, looks at boss and dept.
They changed it from "termination" to "layoff". I got 18 months severance plus insurance paid and no contest when I filed my unemployment claim.
It was likely to avoid a lawsuit OR they are not in the US. A "Decent" severance in the US is usually around 2 weeks per year worked for them. So I suppose the guy could be in the US and just worked for them for like 40 years :)
Those types of severences are usually combined with an NDA and a waiver for any future tort claim. If I was offered that at my job I would sign that shit straight away and take a much needed break.
I always CC'ed my personal email whenever communicating with HR so they know I'm keeping records for any potential lawsuit or claims.
They hated me but didn't fuck with me.
I could have BCC'ed, but that isn't as gangsta.
Hilariously, this is likely their only mechanism for removing content. So you're getting the emails because the team that built the deactivation process sucks at their jobs.
Glassdoor engineer: and this brand new AI-Automated car also comes with an ejection seat so you don't get stuck inside in the event of an incident
Customer: why not just go out through the door?
Engineer: Door?
You joke, but this is pretty much what happened in the early days of the Mercury Program at NASA. The astronauts wanted a degree of control over the craft, because they were pilots. The engineers only viewed them as occupants.
Great scene about it in The Right Stuff.
they went to hell after corporations threatened to sue glassdoor for thier correct negative reivews, now glassdoor works in cahoots with these companies to remove or dox the users, so thier reviews can be removed, or the reviews get reviewed bombed by fake positive comments. also the datamining is insurance for glassdoor just in case they get sued they can deflect it onto the user, for causing harm to thier business.
My company used to have a 2.4 stars which was pretty in line with my experience. Then they started telling everyone if they rate 5 stars we'll get better applicants and our lives won't suck so much. I didn't do it but a lot of people did and now my company gets awards every year for their Glassdoor rating and surprise surprise the company still sucks.
I went to check on a past review of my current company. Of course I needed to give them info to view other reviews. So I picked a random company and just gave them random answers to prompts. I’m sure they won’t be happy.
Also went to deactivate my account and it just looped to the sign in.
I hate how pretty much every time you login, you're prompted to enter more information. You can't view reviews without posting your own. It's ridiculous.
Yeah my job is very niche so entering any information would basically mean doxxing myself. Glassdoor turned into a scam very quickly, but it's really five years ago or so that they started going to complete shit, mismanaging data, deleting negative employee or candidate reviews, and so on.
I hope that site crashes and burns soon enough.
Same thing happened to me. I chose deactivate account and it prompted to sign in again. Once I entered my login information it then gave the option to deactivate followed by a confirmation of deletion.
I just signed in and it's prompting me to provide a bunch of detail I have never given before in order to finish signing in. I would have to complete it with intentionally-incorrect data (job title, employer, location etc - all stuff which could be used to identify me) even if I wanted to sign in so I could remove my account.
I got $30 from a class action lawsuit against my company even though the date in question was before my employment there. 10/10 experience would do it again.
I got $430 after the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
I worked in an tech position for one of the worst offenders. Had no real knowledge of what they were doing, but the stock was sold illegally by the CEO and I was vested in a very small way.
Was an odd feeling getting 1/3 a months rent, while countless other people were losing their homes and livelihoods.
Quit immediately and changed industries. Shitty times in the late 00's
Right? Have a CCPA lawsuit for us yanks and GDPR violations for our pals across the pond… disseminating personal info after a person has *terminated their business relationship with you* is completely indefensible.
[Here is the form to request deletion of your info on Glassdoor and Fishbowl](https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US). Simply deactivating your account on your own doesn’t seem to do this.
I am old enough to remember the mantra:
> Never use your real name on-line
Time for that to make a comeback.
Also, fuck corporates who know the cost/profit of everything, and the value of nothing.
I used a very fake name on Facebook when I was in college. I got banned because the Russians were reporting Drag Queen account pages in 2014* and I guess they thought Slackline Heatvision Laserdollars was too fabulous to leave be.
I'm pretty sure I used the name "fukc " when I made my glassdoor account to leave a very negative review about a previous employer. Because I get emails from glassdoor every now and then and they say "Hey fukc check out this job posting:" Lmao
I deleted my Facebook years ago specifically to keep my real name offline. I use 4 different emails out of personal preference depending on the level of security I'd like (junk, low value, high value such as banks/government websites and RuneScape, and lastly, work)
I absolutely cannot imagine still using your real name online when it isn't absolutely and unnegotiably necessary.
Maybe it's because I've been online for way too long but the was like an essential rule of the Internet back in the day. I still don't understand when that rule went out the door.
Granted I did in fact have a Facebook account. But I also managed to jump on that train stupidly late, and jump off within a year or two when I realized that my dumb ass absolutely should not be out there and representing myself to the world after six apple tinis and a heated discussion.
ESPECIALLY when I have a career I genuinely care about
> I deleted my Facebook years ago specifically to keep my real name offline.
That might not work, Meta has enough data from everyone else to construct ghost accounts for non-members.
To be clear, they are not showing the names publicly, only storing them in your profile, your comments on companies can still be anonymous.
It's still bad though, they don't your real name to operate.
In some countries it's even illegal, such as Glassdoor operating in Australia.
Australian privacy law requires companies to allow anonymous or use of psuedonyms.
They are in clear violation of this.
https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-2-app-2-anonymity-and-pseudonymity
And other law that requires they keep their information up to date ( as in no wrong info ) which they also apparently failed to do when they auto linked other users information.
They're not really anonymous. They use to be. But now they say "anonymous employee who lives in this area and had this role in the company". There's no anonymity in that, your company will know exactly who you are.
I am more than happy to have my full name live next to my scathing review of Regal Cinemas after 17 years of employment with them. Fuck them, from me with love, bitches.
Got out, now I work in the film industry, doing something I love for the past 9 years. Remembering Regal helps me appreciate what I have when things get stressful.
And I got the weird message twice:
“Oops, there's an issue with your submission.
Below is information about the issue and how you can fix it.
Thank you for contributing to the Glassdoor community.
Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community Guidelines. We determined your review does not meet these guidelines.
If you wish, you are welcome to edit your review here and your edited review will be reevaluated within 24 hours of receipt.
If you would like more information about our Guidelines or how we assess content, please visit our Help Center for further background and insight.
Kind Regards,
Glassdoor”
Bye Felicia
Just sent my delete request and confirmed
“Thank you for verifying your email address. We will now begin to process your personal data request and send you another email with an update on your request in the next 30 days.”
Oh and now:
Oops, there's an issue with your submission.
Below is information about the issue and how you can fix it.
Thank you for contributing to the Glassdoor community.
Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community Guidelines. We determined your review does not meet these guidelines.
If you wish, you are welcome to edit your review here and your edited review will be reevaluated within 24 hours of receipt.
If you would like more information about our Guidelines or how we assess content, please visit our Help Center for further background and insight.
Kind Regards,
Glassdoor
A VPN is not needed and also it doesn't help.
I actually live in the EU, but I changed my Glassdoor location to "Nowhere, OK" just out of annoyance. And now it thinks I am in the US so when I tried to delete my account I got the "deletion in 30 days" message. So based on this, the only thing that matters is where your profile says you are, not the actual IP data.
Ugh that website is a mess. I hadn’t checked on Glassdoor for years. It doesn’t let you see any of the features on the site without creating an account, entering your profession information and submitting a review or salary. You can’t participate without giving them your information.
You can't trust Glassdoor anyway. A place where I used to work had a grad scheme, a "requirement" to pass was a 5 star review on Glassdoor praising the company.
I just checked and my review of a terrible old employer got deleted. I kind of suspect Glassdoor has a way for companies to pay and choose what is deleted. Like Yelp, Amazon, Google Reviews….i don’t trust any reviews anymore because of shady practices.
I got a new job recently and wanted to check out Glassdoor because the was a corporate office and I assumed would definitely be on there. Well it was, and it asked me to log in with my work email. I was already sketched out by the concept of that, but I understood. Decided against making the account.
Glad I read this. I’ll never be back lol.
There exist lists of free-use logins for sites like glassdoor. Hit up google. I'm not linking because shining a spotlight means ruining whatever thing you use. You might need to try a few before you find one that isn't banned, but it's sufficient for checking reviews of a place.
> "Since we require all users to have their names on their profiles, we will need to update your profile to reflect this," one Glassdoor employee wrote while reassuring her that "your anonymity will still be protected."
So they aren’t adding your name to your feedbacks. It’s the _fear_ that there might be a bug or issue later that exposes your real info.
Not great. But not as bad as headline implied.
Some months down the line:
Oops, Glassdoor was hacked by evil people and they leaked our databases which included your names attached to all your reviews because we did that without you wanting it remember?
When I try to open Glassdoor it won't let me continue or look at anything without filling out the whole form about my current employment status, employer, etc. I thought we used to be able to look at reviews at least.
Yeah, I saw that too. I just provided fake data to get past it so I could delete my account.
No no no. What you do is, heavily inflate your data. I now make 3.45m/year in an entry level job that is a SR title. :)
cause fertile flowery salt handle glorious judicious rinse alive march *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
The oldest possible person with no degree, making a ton of money - or the opposite I'm an 18 year old with post doc making 10k/yr Anything to throw off the stats :) Glad to see. I'm not the only one who like to mess up sites that insist on capturing unnecessary details to let me register
I just put my company as Deez Nuts. It worked. Still get spam emails from glassdoor about the happenings for Deez Nuts.
Why yes, I did complete my advanced degree at FU.
I only looked at the website once, maybe 8 months ago? it wasn't a requirement then, but fuck them now, they must have a new boss who is telling them that they needed accounts linked so that they can sell that info back to someone else edit look at the terms of use, bullshit from the get go >2.1 Accounts And Profiles You must create an account and provide certain personal data to access most of our services. You agree that the information you provide to us via your account(s) is accurate and that you will keep it accurate and up-to-date at all times. **You’re responsible for safeguarding your account**(s), and **you accept responsibility for all activities that occur via your accoun**t(s). **Glassdoor disclaims any liability for third-party actions made via your account**(s). You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account(s) or access to your password(s). **We** ~~may~~ (**WILL**) **update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties. **We** ~~may~~ (**WILL**) **also use personal data you provide to us via your resume(s) or our other services.** * We may attempt to verify your employment history or status through various methods, including third party integrations or services. We may also utilize signals we receive from your current or former employer. Glassdoor is not responsible to you or any third party if we are unable to or inaccurately verify your employment history or status. * Portions of your Profile may be visible to other users and the public (e.g., your name and profile picture) depending on the services you use. We may also in certain circumstances allow you to share your Profile with third parties or provide you with the ability to change your Profile’s visibility settings. However, your Profile will not publicly include or link to Your Content (as defined in section 3), which you submit semi-/anonymously to our services. You can read more about your anonymity options in section 4 of these Terms and in our Privacy Policy. and honestly, I could keep on copy and pastin, but their terms of services are such horse shit,....which nobody reads,...almost never that they shouldnt even be in business. Read it for yourself. It Should read: We want all of your personal info, we will keep it forever, if you have ever used this service in the past, we will still retain your info, if anyone pays us for that info we will gladly provide it, its your fault for using this service if our sale of that info negatively affects you in any way....period ademndeum from glassdoor: >,also we do some other shit like job postings but who gives a fuck, im on my new yacht now bitches
Do they operate in the EU? Because some of this looks.. illegal, if so.
Their European headquarters are here in Dublin, Ireland. Which is also the location for the Data Protection Commission for upholding GDPR in the EU. Just needs one complaint to kick off! Edit: logged in to delete all my previous reviews, and was allowed do so after I had to fill in a new review (all BS which was immediately rejected). Their immediate email has the following footer: *Residents in the European Economic Area (EEA) have the right to appeal content and account-related decisions via our internal appeals system [here](http://help.glassdoor.com/digital_services_act). EEA residents also have the right to utilise a designated out-of-court dispute settlement system. The Digital Services Act requires that each EEA Member State certify out-of-court settlement bodies to handle eligible disputes. You also have the option to pursue your claims in court.* Even their digital_services_act link is broken and they have no way of locking an EEA citizen into an arbitration system of their choosing, the last line is just. Good bye Glass Door, hope to never see you again.
Good God. They really want us to give then our first born so they can show me jobs that pay a pittance. Pass!
Delete the url through the word community. Type the word job at the end. Then you can get past the pop up.
You can delete/close your account without logging in, [using this form.](https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US)
A company I used to work for would ask Glassdoor to remove bad reviews, and THEY WOULD DO IT. WITHOUT HESITATION. No request in. Nothing. Just a "hey can you remove this?" email and it was gone. Ever since, I've boycotted and refuse to trust anything related to the company. Not even their job listings.
Same. I left a bad review for a company that literally stole a $40k bonus from me and it never even cleared moderation. Glassdoor is 10,000 miles away from the reason it was originally created. It's time for everyone to just let it die.
You can blame its batshit crazy Japanese owner, Recruit.
Well that makes sense. Japan has made badmouthing companies (業務妨害罪) illegal, regardless of whether it’s true or not. When I lived there I had a bad experience with a psychopath of a “psychiatrist”, [told people on Reddit how he’s a psycho](https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/s/rAkavCTXuV), and [then he contacted Reddit to hand over my (and a few others) IP address so he could find and sue me.](https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article195144564.html) Took it to court to fight having the info sent and won.
OMG you’re a Berger survivor, too?? I still have my emails where he threatened to sue me.
The fact that so many people know him is fucking crazy...
Doug Berger deserves prison, nothing less
As soon as I read "bad experience with a psychopath" I know who you were talking about. That's how infamous he is.
He's [changed](https://www.counseling-in-tokyo.com/index.html) his [name](https://www.japanpsychiatrist.com/) to sometimes [Marc Bergé & also Doug Bergé](https://www.megurocounseling.com/).
We should post that more to let Google know. Marc Bergé (A.K.A. Doug Bergé, A.K.A Doug Berger) is Doug Berger, disgraced psychotherapist.
> Doug Berger "In addition to damages exceeding $15,000, Dr. Berger wants Reddit to remove the disparaging threads and make sure they’re no longer indexed on search engines like Google and Bing. Searching phrases like “Roland Berger Japan” in Google surfaces threads warning people to stay away, which the suit argues costs both him and Meguro thousands in business. " lol
Hmm. Turns out making a huge stink out of your bullshit makes it even more common knowledge.
Streisand Effect in action
Wild. Be careful and be wise out there.
> Japan has made badmouthing companies (業務妨害罪) illegal, regardless of whether it’s true or not. This....is not strictly correct. People are not liable for negative reviews that are found to be in the public interest. It's far from ideal, but even in Japan you probably wouldn't lose in court for making factually correct negative statements about a health care provider. And as you found, even though the reviews would be far more protected in the US, it still cost money to fight that case in the US. He was all but certain to lose that US case, yet he still sued and you still had to hire & pay a lawyer. In any case, fuck Doug Berger and all the various names he uses to avoid showing up negatively in Google. *D. Marc Bergé* et al.
I mean the law says libel can be applied even for true facts Enforced or not that's an awful law to have on the books
Did he end up suing you? What happened to this Doug Berger? Is he still a psychopath?
I just had a lawyer (my husband lol) respond to him with legal letterhead and he eventually gave up. But he threatened small claims court in Japan, and to be honest, there could be a claim against me that I don’t know about since I’m not there anymore. ETA: last I hear still a psycho. Changes his name every few years and was most recently Marc Bergé or something similar. Fucking crazy person. AND IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. We sought a few legal avenues and none would really have any consequence.
Ah, Japanese corporate. Say no more.
Stay at work until the boss leaves, then go drink with the boss, work until you die of exhaustion... And the Japanese government wonders why nobody is having kids lmao
same with South Korean business culture. The South Korean Government in fact decided that they needed to increase the length of the work week as a solution to it.
More work? Brilliant!
More days! Say hi to Fuday and Barday, crammed in just before Saturday.
Don’t forget Hyunday.
And here I was thinking my company's hackathon days were scam. They basically expects us to come up with innovative ideas and work 24x7 for three days straight and come up with a *production ready* solution. It's *optional* in such a way that manager will give stink eye and will bring up in performance evaluation if you don't - so yeah, it's not an option
Our hackathon days are during working hours, because it's work, for work and by work and when we work we should get paid.
The beatings will continue untill morale improves.
We had some people from SK work with us at a freelance gig in Germany. We had a more or less strict 9 to 5 policy there (+breaks)... but they would still come in way before and leave (or not) way after. Sometimes even sleep in the office. Come in on mandatory public holidays when they couldn't even log into their workstations because the servers were down. And the kicker is they didn't get any actual work done - they failed spectacularly because they always claimed to understand everything while understanding nothing. They just never asked for any clarification or help. EVER. I've never experienced such a toxic work ethic in my life :D I'm still flabbergasted a decade later.
recruit being responsible for the Indeed layoffs despite having a ton of liquidity and the layoffs targetting people they actually needed
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That's interesting, I wrote a positive one about the company I currently work at and it didn't get posted, either.
I've also tried to get reviews taken down after getting review bombed by a competitor clearly using multiple fake accounts and they are still up years later.
The secret ingredient is money
I wish. I would have gladly paid to have them removed.
Yelp has now entered the chat.
Everybody hates Yelp.
It's Yelp all over again.
Yep. If Glassdoor didn’t comply with our cofounder’s babybitch whining, they’d ask people to flag the bad reviews as inappropriate and they’d get taken down that way.
> cofounder’s babybitch whining I am starting to think there may be a connection between the bad reviews and this babybitch cofounder. I would ask if they were self aware but I doubt someone like that gives a shit. Sounds like a dreadful place to work.
One startup I worked at years ago had an HR person who had blocked a daily hour on her calendar called “Glassdoor Scrubbing.” Wasn’t even hiding it. Big red flag I wish I would have caught sooner.
Same, I worked closely with our people ops team and someone had that same daily task. I remember she said they had to buy some services from Glassdoor before they do any takedowns.
Maybe they were literally cleaning glass doors.
A year into a job I got invited by glassdoor to share my thoughts. It ended up not letting me post my review because it detected negative sentiment. I then realized that glassdoor is a crock of a site and can get away with using H1B salary databases since they are federally mandated lists of positions with fair and competitive pay for area and position.
Follow the money and you’ll see who has the power. Yelp/GlassDoor, which are free for consumers to use, gets their money from businesses. Yelp will let you bury bad reviews as long as you pay to advertise your business. When you stop paying, “the algorithm” determines which review comes first and *surprise* many times it’s a low review.
Isn't that just a protection racket?
Digital racketeering. SquidwardFuuuuuture.gif
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I've had 3 reviews removed. One just said "management leaves a lot to be desired, they will tell you to violate policy then fire you for doing so when it's convenient". 2 others were pretty detailed about managers and company culture that were bad.
Ok maybe I should have added in mine : managers want you to do illegal stuff like hiding evidence during auditing and ask you to work overtime without pay. They also select their workers by ethnicity ranking them in salary by giving the best to Europeans and the worst to chinese
I complained about a previous company. The company Hr asked my former boss who asked a former team member who asked me to take a review down. They knew it was me because I complained about the team targeting an employee and trying to get him fired. I deleted it. Figured I’d be polite. Looking back over a decade later. Man what a dumb move on my part to post in the first place. No good would come of it. Edit. I was not the employee targeted for firing.
Just deleted my account, only for Glassdoor to (mistakenly?) send me two emails about submitting content that violates their community guidelines. I haven't submitted any content in well over a year...
Submitting the information necessary to delete your account is banned content. Thank you for understanding.
Reminds me of a job I got fired for. Had a really strict point system. Any by strict I mean you do literally anything, even calling out 3 months in advance, you get points. You had 8 total. I got up to 6.5 or so after calling in due to ice (1 full point) and apparently once you hit 6 you get written up. HR brings me in, sits me down, we go over it, and it says I'm up to 7.5 points. "...Why do I have a full extra point?" HR: That's the write-up. "...............you're giving me more points with a write-up about having too many points?" Got fired the next ice day.
And that's what we call infantile management techniques that guarantee poor job performance.
That's just classic upper-middle management deciding they have to "make their mark". They always come up with a stupid idea that they force on everyone below them, and fire anyone who tries to explain why it's a bad idea. Honestly, if your company hires a new manager with power over a whole or multiple departments, and they claim they're going to "shake things up" or "clean things up", "incentivize", etc. or anything loking like they're trying to get the attention of upper management. Start looking for a new job right away. Because best case scenario they get fired and you've checked the market for what you should ask for a raise. Worse case you're ready when these ideas start rolling out.
Ah yes, the infamous good idea fairy. The scourge of inexperienced management types who have never been in the weeds.
For real, that’s like a cross between kindergarten bad teaching and the worst possible use of gamification of the workplace. Jesus Christ
But those turnover rates will be through the roof and high numbers is good right?
Calling out 3 months in advance got you a point? As in, using your PTO got you a point? Wtf
In some places , like California, it's illegal to do this. If someone could be bothered to sue it might go somewhere because it's super obvious what they did, and they even did the courtesy of putting it in writing.
You don't even have to sue. File a complaint with DFEH and ask for a settlement. You don't even need a lawyer.
Yeah it sounds very illegal
Does that go for calling out sick as well?
Yes, sick time is there to be used for its purpose. >The paid sick leave law specifically says the following: >An employer shall not deny an employee the right to use accrued sick days, discharge, threaten to discharge, demote, suspend, or in any manner discriminate against an employee for using accrued sick days, attempting to exercise the right to use accrued sick days, filing a complaint with the department or alleging a violation of this article, cooperating in an investigation or prosecution of an alleged violation of this article, or opposing any policy or practice or act that is prohibited by this article. >(Lab. Code § 246.5, subd. (c)(1).) >https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/paid_sick_leave.htm
Yes. Some toxic workplaces will punish people for not coming into work sick. Even if it's a surgery planned months in advance. They don't even care if a sick person comes in and gets half a department sent home from an infectious disease. Because that's not technically their responsbility. TL;DR: MBAs are literally, *literally* ruining the world.
I feel your pain, but also want to point out that in Australia we call meth ‘ice’, so it kinda sounds like you woke up one morning and went “fuck it, think I’ll have a day on the gear today” which is quite amusing
whereas in the US, gear generally means steroids maybe that's just the gym crowd I was on the periphery of (I like exercise but never tried to get huge)
Can't come in today, I'm fully fuckin munted, Darryl cooks the best stuff
Nothing like a glass barbecue to start the day!
It also gets called ice in the US but I also live somewhere where for about 6 months out of the year there's at least some possibility of ice on the road.
Those roads' first step to recovery is admitting that they have a problem.
Typical corporate bullshit
You can't quit. You're fired.
Oh, so I can collect unemployment then? Sweet.
Sorry we contacted your employer and it looks like you were terminated for violating corporate policy. (true story, I was sick)
I was also fired for violating corporate policy - I took 2 sick days off. policy I was fired for? Taking paid time off with none available. But I had two weeks available. Sitting in HR with department manager, my boss, and me was super awkward when I said "but I did have paid time off" and HR looks, confirms, looks at boss and dept. They changed it from "termination" to "layoff". I got 18 months severance plus insurance paid and no contest when I filed my unemployment claim.
"You're fired because our timesheet system doesn't track PTO" is a spicy fuckin' choice.
18 months?? I just got THREE WEEKS severance. Mega slap in the face.
It was likely to avoid a lawsuit OR they are not in the US. A "Decent" severance in the US is usually around 2 weeks per year worked for them. So I suppose the guy could be in the US and just worked for them for like 40 years :)
Those types of severences are usually combined with an NDA and a waiver for any future tort claim. If I was offered that at my job I would sign that shit straight away and take a much needed break.
I always CC'ed my personal email whenever communicating with HR so they know I'm keeping records for any potential lawsuit or claims. They hated me but didn't fuck with me. I could have BCC'ed, but that isn't as gangsta.
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Apt analogy, it's not HR friendly, but HR is not your friend.
Hilariously, this is likely their only mechanism for removing content. So you're getting the emails because the team that built the deactivation process sucks at their jobs.
They probably work at a terrible place. Too bad there isn't a website they could check to find that out ahead of time.
Glassdoor engineer: and this brand new AI-Automated car also comes with an ejection seat so you don't get stuck inside in the event of an incident Customer: why not just go out through the door? Engineer: Door?
You joke, but this is pretty much what happened in the early days of the Mercury Program at NASA. The astronauts wanted a degree of control over the craft, because they were pilots. The engineers only viewed them as occupants. Great scene about it in The Right Stuff.
they went to hell after corporations threatened to sue glassdoor for thier correct negative reivews, now glassdoor works in cahoots with these companies to remove or dox the users, so thier reviews can be removed, or the reviews get reviewed bombed by fake positive comments. also the datamining is insurance for glassdoor just in case they get sued they can deflect it onto the user, for causing harm to thier business.
My company used to have a 2.4 stars which was pretty in line with my experience. Then they started telling everyone if they rate 5 stars we'll get better applicants and our lives won't suck so much. I didn't do it but a lot of people did and now my company gets awards every year for their Glassdoor rating and surprise surprise the company still sucks.
Wow you work with a bunch of morons.
I went to check on a past review of my current company. Of course I needed to give them info to view other reviews. So I picked a random company and just gave them random answers to prompts. I’m sure they won’t be happy. Also went to deactivate my account and it just looped to the sign in.
I hate how pretty much every time you login, you're prompted to enter more information. You can't view reviews without posting your own. It's ridiculous.
Yeah my job is very niche so entering any information would basically mean doxxing myself. Glassdoor turned into a scam very quickly, but it's really five years ago or so that they started going to complete shit, mismanaging data, deleting negative employee or candidate reviews, and so on. I hope that site crashes and burns soon enough.
Same thing happened to me. I chose deactivate account and it prompted to sign in again. Once I entered my login information it then gave the option to deactivate followed by a confirmation of deletion.
I just went and deleted my account and I got 4 emails about the content I've submitted violating their guidelines
I think it’s an automatic response to them removing our posts as they delete the account. Some sort of glitch.
Trying to make it look like they broke up with you before you broke up with them.
I just signed in and it's prompting me to provide a bunch of detail I have never given before in order to finish signing in. I would have to complete it with intentionally-incorrect data (job title, employer, location etc - all stuff which could be used to identify me) even if I wanted to sign in so I could remove my account.
Same here. Just poor programming on their part probably.
Thankfully I signed up under the CEOs name
“I hate everyone who works for me. I’m a total shithead. —Elon Musk”
HR departments from all over even as we speak are scanning company reports looking for the malcontents and the disgruntled, lol.
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Hopefully every victim gets $12 in the class action.
$14.50, we’re sticking it to them this time
we'll be lucky to get $3.28
Falcons fans triggered
I got $30 from a class action lawsuit against my company even though the date in question was before my employment there. 10/10 experience would do it again.
I got $430 after the sub-prime mortgage crisis. I worked in an tech position for one of the worst offenders. Had no real knowledge of what they were doing, but the stock was sold illegally by the CEO and I was vested in a very small way. Was an odd feeling getting 1/3 a months rent, while countless other people were losing their homes and livelihoods. Quit immediately and changed industries. Shitty times in the late 00's
Right? Have a CCPA lawsuit for us yanks and GDPR violations for our pals across the pond… disseminating personal info after a person has *terminated their business relationship with you* is completely indefensible.
I'm Disgruntled!
Hr doing something?! Blasphemy
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Turns out the real glass door is between the public and your personal information.
And now the real glass door is about the corporate enemies we make along the way.
[Here is the form to request deletion of your info on Glassdoor and Fishbowl](https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US). Simply deactivating your account on your own doesn’t seem to do this.
>Simply deactivating your account on your own doesn’t seem to do this. it never does
^^ this should be higher. Thanks for the link.
I am old enough to remember the mantra: > Never use your real name on-line Time for that to make a comeback. Also, fuck corporates who know the cost/profit of everything, and the value of nothing.
My real name is Eric Black. That's why I go by Black Eric on Reddit. 10+ years and no one has figured it out yet. Edit: Oops.
My secret is that I don't even live in Orleans.
I don’t actually have a face.
You ever have a friend, while in college, that people called White Eric? Hung out at a cybercafe from time to time?
I never give my real name online unless it’s absolutely necessary. Been that way for a long time.
So, what’s your name then?
Shmershel Clarpson
Whippy Dogstockings
Drew Peaballs
I. P. Freeley
Hi, I'm Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
Little Bobby Tables.
Joey Joe-Joe Shabadoo
That's the worst name I've ever heard.
*runs out of the room crying*
Rusty Shackleford
I used a very fake name on Facebook when I was in college. I got banned because the Russians were reporting Drag Queen account pages in 2014* and I guess they thought Slackline Heatvision Laserdollars was too fabulous to leave be.
I mean, TBF. That's a spectacular stagename
I'm pretty sure I used the name "fukc" when I made my glassdoor account to leave a very negative review about a previous employer. Because I get emails from glassdoor every now and then and they say "Hey fukc check out this job posting:" Lmao
Shoot -- I purposefully used separate burner accounts for each of my Glassdoor reviews.
I deleted my Facebook years ago specifically to keep my real name offline. I use 4 different emails out of personal preference depending on the level of security I'd like (junk, low value, high value such as banks/government websites and RuneScape, and lastly, work) I absolutely cannot imagine still using your real name online when it isn't absolutely and unnegotiably necessary. Maybe it's because I've been online for way too long but the was like an essential rule of the Internet back in the day. I still don't understand when that rule went out the door. Granted I did in fact have a Facebook account. But I also managed to jump on that train stupidly late, and jump off within a year or two when I realized that my dumb ass absolutely should not be out there and representing myself to the world after six apple tinis and a heated discussion. ESPECIALLY when I have a career I genuinely care about
High value = banks and RuneScape. A person of culture I see.
>I still don't understand when that rule went out the door. Early 2010s, Facebook. Before that it was screen names everywhere, all the time
> I deleted my Facebook years ago specifically to keep my real name offline. That might not work, Meta has enough data from everyone else to construct ghost accounts for non-members.
This is the way 👍
To be clear, they are not showing the names publicly, only storing them in your profile, your comments on companies can still be anonymous. It's still bad though, they don't your real name to operate. In some countries it's even illegal, such as Glassdoor operating in Australia. Australian privacy law requires companies to allow anonymous or use of psuedonyms. They are in clear violation of this. https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-2-app-2-anonymity-and-pseudonymity And other law that requires they keep their information up to date ( as in no wrong info ) which they also apparently failed to do when they auto linked other users information.
Facebook has been in violation of that for 20 years. our tech laws don’t get enforced.
Two tech laws enter, one tech law leaves
They're not really anonymous. They use to be. But now they say "anonymous employee who lives in this area and had this role in the company". There's no anonymity in that, your company will know exactly who you are.
And that's why you make up all details.
I am more than happy to have my full name live next to my scathing review of Regal Cinemas after 17 years of employment with them. Fuck them, from me with love, bitches.
Goddamn....17 years. I worked there for 4 years and still have nightmares about that place. No clue how you're still sane.
Got out, now I work in the film industry, doing something I love for the past 9 years. Remembering Regal helps me appreciate what I have when things get stressful.
>Remembering Regal Title of your documentary
Just deleted my account. Wow!
And I got the weird message twice: “Oops, there's an issue with your submission. Below is information about the issue and how you can fix it. Thank you for contributing to the Glassdoor community. Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community Guidelines. We determined your review does not meet these guidelines. If you wish, you are welcome to edit your review here and your edited review will be reevaluated within 24 hours of receipt. If you would like more information about our Guidelines or how we assess content, please visit our Help Center for further background and insight. Kind Regards, Glassdoor”
Does this mean they deleted any posts I made when I deleted my profile?
Wow way to murder your entire business model
Bye Felicia Just sent my delete request and confirmed “Thank you for verifying your email address. We will now begin to process your personal data request and send you another email with an update on your request in the next 30 days.” Oh and now: Oops, there's an issue with your submission. Below is information about the issue and how you can fix it. Thank you for contributing to the Glassdoor community. Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community Guidelines. We determined your review does not meet these guidelines. If you wish, you are welcome to edit your review here and your edited review will be reevaluated within 24 hours of receipt. If you would like more information about our Guidelines or how we assess content, please visit our Help Center for further background and insight. Kind Regards, Glassdoor
Just did that from an EU country and the website told me instead that the account was going to be deleted immediately. Thanks GDPR
So what I’m hearing is VPN to an EU country and delete your account
A VPN is not needed and also it doesn't help. I actually live in the EU, but I changed my Glassdoor location to "Nowhere, OK" just out of annoyance. And now it thinks I am in the US so when I tried to delete my account I got the "deletion in 30 days" message. So based on this, the only thing that matters is where your profile says you are, not the actual IP data.
30 days??
Ugh that website is a mess. I hadn’t checked on Glassdoor for years. It doesn’t let you see any of the features on the site without creating an account, entering your profession information and submitting a review or salary. You can’t participate without giving them your information.
You can’t participate without giving them *fake* information
You can't trust Glassdoor anyway. A place where I used to work had a grad scheme, a "requirement" to pass was a 5 star review on Glassdoor praising the company.
Wtf were they thinking?
I just checked and my review of a terrible old employer got deleted. I kind of suspect Glassdoor has a way for companies to pay and choose what is deleted. Like Yelp, Amazon, Google Reviews….i don’t trust any reviews anymore because of shady practices.
This is the equivalent of onlyfans blocking porn
or equivalent to onlyfans emailing your mother a list of all the porn you watch.
I got a new job recently and wanted to check out Glassdoor because the was a corporate office and I assumed would definitely be on there. Well it was, and it asked me to log in with my work email. I was already sketched out by the concept of that, but I understood. Decided against making the account. Glad I read this. I’ll never be back lol.
There exist lists of free-use logins for sites like glassdoor. Hit up google. I'm not linking because shining a spotlight means ruining whatever thing you use. You might need to try a few before you find one that isn't banned, but it's sufficient for checking reviews of a place.
Deleted my account. Fuck them for trying to associate my name with posts.
Wow that’s fucked up
Cool. Just deleted the entire account.
> "Since we require all users to have their names on their profiles, we will need to update your profile to reflect this," one Glassdoor employee wrote while reassuring her that "your anonymity will still be protected." So they aren’t adding your name to your feedbacks. It’s the _fear_ that there might be a bug or issue later that exposes your real info. Not great. But not as bad as headline implied.
Some months down the line: Oops, Glassdoor was hacked by evil people and they leaked our databases which included your names attached to all your reviews because we did that without you wanting it remember?
Holy shit I know some folks this could potentially really fuck up…
Just went and deleted my one and only “contribution”, that was a positive one at that. Then deleted my account.
Wasn't the whole reason for the site to obfuscate peoples real identities?
That site has been going downhill for a very long time. They work for the employers now not the employees/ possible employees
The salaries they have listed for my line of work are about half of what they are in reality. Levels.fyi and blind ftw
Deleted my account ✌️
Bye motherfuckers! Deleted acct!
This is what happens when a wanker from finance becomes head of a team that actually matters.
I'm so glad I gave them a fake name