• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    earnest reviews of their employers (which is literally the core of their business

    I don’t understand the need for a site like this. I just assume that my employer is going to suck in standard corporate suck fashion.

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      8 months ago

      There’s the normal suck, then there’s “I (been there 12 years) got passed up for promotion to replace my boss who retired because the owner’s nephew who worked with us for a few years (sucked and “volentarely” left 6 years ago) decided their cyptoscheme wasn’t working out and needed a job, and that was the highest one paying one avalible.”

      Or the "Sally got verably harassed dailiy and they did nothing because the harrasser has been there 30 years. ‘He’s just an old man in his early 50s, older gentlemen call ladies nicknames like sweetcakes, honey, or cutie all the time. They also like to rub peoples shoulders to show affec to help relive the tension and promote a healthier work environment’ "

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      8 months ago

      Some are much more capable of disguising it during the interview process.

      In the tech industry around the pandemic there was the great resignation and companies were tripping over themselves to employ as many people as possible. It was great then because you had so many options and they were all seemingly similar job descriptions.

      Now the site is shitty and getting a job is terrible. Woo capitalism!

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        Frankly I never trusted Glassdoor. I assume most reviews are made by the companies HR department to lie about how great it is. I just need to look at the reviews of the companies I’ve worked for to see that it’s 99% bullshit.

        Don’t trust employers. They lie to you and underpay you.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve had a couple of good jobs where I was treated well and compensated well all around. Companies like that would be glad to have reviews from happy employees visible to the public on a trustworthy review site.

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        8 months ago

        And sometimes it’s not just corporate suck. I’ve literally had the CIO of a construction contractor berate me on the phone before I had started. Needless to say I didn’t take their offer

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          8 months ago

          Same. Got screamed at before the interview. don’t know why I even bothered going, maybe just curious how fucked up the place would be.

          Left them a bad Google maps review which was kinda fun since they had zero reviews before I left one. They left a screaming reply to it hahah

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              8 months ago

              Was a long time ago but I remember it was something small like I had used my old snail mail address on my resume vs my cover-letter.

              But hey they bought me lunch so it wasn’t a total lost and I got to see all the people running the place act like total assholes to each other. So dinner and a show.

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            8 months ago

            Haha. I really want to do the first part, but relatively local to my region. I’d rather not give that out right now :\

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      8 months ago

      Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.

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        Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.

        Thank you for saying this.

        I don’t get how so many people are so willing to just pull down their pants and bend over, instead of pushing back.