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Throw away account for obvious reasons: Someone made a claim in a review that I, or someone on my team (it was unclear which from the review), tried to cover u

Throw away account for obvious reasons: Someone made a claim in a review that I, or someone on my team (it was unclear which from the review), tried to cover up a sexual assault [and some other claims that we were nasty people in general]. Investigative lawyers were hired in relation to the sexual assault cover up claim, and they spent the next few months trying to get to the bottom of what might have happened. In the end, nothing could be found. No person came forward, the lawyers investigated with current and past team members, it was exhausting and painful. A lot of time and money was spent, but we didn't get any sign that the claim was in fact true. The company asked for people to come forward with more information, nothing happened. Further, the original poster from Glassdoor could not be reached, it was a dead end. At the end of the day, the post survived. The company tried to get it removed yet Glassdoor wanted no part in censoring the claim, despite it being backed by zero evidence. It hurt me, it was difficult to manage with my relationship, my team members...it still upsets me today. I am torn between thinking maybe there was something that happened I didn't know about, and that this is just an angry person trying to cause trouble. I'll possibly never know, but it continues to upset me even now as I write this. I just went back now and checked, the post has been modified to remove this claim. I know it was there for about 12 months. So yeah, based on this, I don't know Glassdoor offers the flexibility some imply it does. I don't know what resulted in it finally changing, but the damage is done in my opinion.

mrtksn 5y ago
I think this comment is a brilliant exposition on how anonymity can be good and bad. I guess you want leave these things behind and don't make them public, you post an anonymous comment. The worst thing that could have happened is that you are astroturfing for Glassdoor but it's harmless and the sincere tone makes me think that you are not astroturfing. On the the other hand we also have people who will lie, pretend to be multiple people, cause trouble with no repercussion to their characters. I have this idea of censorship free web where you have your identity stored but not disclosed. So the content moderators can choose to delete your comments but you can un-delete those if you accept revealing your identity. So in your situation, you should be able to tell Glassdoor, here is our investigation and we couldn't find anything to indicate that the claims are true therefore please remove this comment. Glassdoor removes the comment and if the poster of the comment is still behind the claims, clicks a button and the comment is restored but this time with the identity exposed. This way, you can have anonymous comments that can be challenged and the commentators have a mechanism to counter censorship as they have the power to override censorship if they are willing to stake their persona.

mrtksn 5y ago

I think this comment is a brilliant exposition on how anonymity can be good and bad. I guess you want leave these things behind and don't make them public, you post an anonymous comment. The worst thing that could have happened is that you are astroturfing for Glassdoor but it's harmless and the sincere tone makes me think that you are not astroturfing. On the the other hand we also have people who will lie, pretend to be multiple people, cause trouble with no repercussion to their characters. I have this idea of censorship free web where you have your identity stored but not disclosed. So the content moderators can choose to delete your comments but you can un-delete those if you accept revealing your identity. So in your situation, you should be able to tell Glassdoor, here is our investigation and we couldn't find anything to indicate that the claims are true therefore please remove this comment. Glassdoor removes the comment and if the poster of the comment is still behind the claims, clicks a button and the comment is restored but this time with the identity exposed. This way, you can have anonymous comments that can be challenged and the commentators have a mechanism to counter censorship as they have the power to override censorship if they are willing to stake their persona.