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I once worked at a company that started getting a slew of bad Glassdoor reviews. The reviews were real; the company leadership had been making some bad choices

I once worked at a company that started getting a slew of bad Glassdoor reviews. The reviews were real; the company leadership had been making some bad choices and the reviews reflected it. So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews.

ProllyInfamous 3y ago
Same situation except mine offered a day of pay upon spinning positivity. After this personal whoring, I was sure to leave a complementary negative review from a shill account.
- rightbyte 3y ago
  You know, the account you wrote the positive review with was the shill account.
  - aorloff 3y ago
    The grift is real
    - ProllyInfamous 3y ago
      Once you've been grifted enough times you realize you were the grifter all along...
    - rightbyte 3y ago
      I fear that I wake up one day and the meaning of 'shill' has drifted so much it is meaningless like 'troll'.
      - ProllyInfamous 3y ago
        In my initial writing I had meant "pseudo-anonymous" instead of "shill."
nine_k 3y ago
I think we need something like a canary signal to mark reviews, posts, etc that you are forced to make, not expressing your opinion. Something innocent-looking, like a double question mark, or a double exclamation.
- paradox460 3y ago
  One of my coworkers left a nasty review, and signed off with "They asked us to write reviews about the company, so here's mine"
LeafItAlone 3y ago
> So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews. I don’t think this is necessarily wrong, provided there was nothing forcing them to be positive or repercussions for not doing it (or for leaving a negative review). Most people review things only at the extremes (usually negative) unless they are prompted. That’s why Amazon sends people emails with questions or asking for a review. If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. I’ve lived in apartments that have done this and noticed when looking at reviews for others that they must have done the same.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. Yeah, it doesn't seem OK to me. The power differential is such that there's no way for a company to ask that of employees without the employees feeling like they have to make the review positive, or less negative than they otherwise might have. So I consider such reviews highly unreliable. That companies do this sort of thing is one of the reasons why I think reviews are pretty close to worthless.
  - LeafItAlone 3y ago
    My last company sent out multiple “Please leave a positive review on Glassdoor” emails as we were trying to hire more. I never felt actually pressured to leave a review, positive or not, from those requests. I didn’t (and it would not have been a positive one, if I did at that particular point in my tenure) and there were no repercussions. There were a few negative reviews added at the time, but there’s no way of knowing if those were a response to the email or not. This was a large company, so maybe that matters to how people feel about it.

ProllyInfamous 3y ago

Same situation except mine offered a day of pay upon spinning positivity. After this personal whoring, I was sure to leave a complementary negative review from a shill account.

rightbyte 3y ago
You know, the account you wrote the positive review with was the shill account.
- aorloff 3y ago
  The grift is real
  - ProllyInfamous 3y ago
    Once you've been grifted enough times you realize you were the grifter all along...
  - rightbyte 3y ago
    I fear that I wake up one day and the meaning of 'shill' has drifted so much it is meaningless like 'troll'.
    - ProllyInfamous 3y ago
      In my initial writing I had meant "pseudo-anonymous" instead of "shill."

nine_k 3y ago

I think we need something like a canary signal to mark reviews, posts, etc that you are forced to make, not expressing your opinion. Something innocent-looking, like a double question mark, or a double exclamation.

paradox460 3y ago
One of my coworkers left a nasty review, and signed off with "They asked us to write reviews about the company, so here's mine"

LeafItAlone 3y ago

> So they sent out messages in the company chatroom, asking people to leave positive reviews. I don’t think this is necessarily wrong, provided there was nothing forcing them to be positive or repercussions for not doing it (or for leaving a negative review). Most people review things only at the extremes (usually negative) unless they are prompted. That’s why Amazon sends people emails with questions or asking for a review. If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. I’ve lived in apartments that have done this and noticed when looking at reviews for others that they must have done the same.

JohnFen 3y ago
> If a company asks their employees to leave positive reviews, and the employees generally like the place and are willing, that seems OK to me. Yeah, it doesn't seem OK to me. The power differential is such that there's no way for a company to ask that of employees without the employees feeling like they have to make the review positive, or less negative than they otherwise might have. So I consider such reviews highly unreliable. That companies do this sort of thing is one of the reasons why I think reviews are pretty close to worthless.
- LeafItAlone 3y ago
  My last company sent out multiple “Please leave a positive review on Glassdoor” emails as we were trying to hire more. I never felt actually pressured to leave a review, positive or not, from those requests. I didn’t (and it would not have been a positive one, if I did at that particular point in my tenure) and there were no repercussions. There were a few negative reviews added at the time, but there’s no way of knowing if those were a response to the email or not. This was a large company, so maybe that matters to how people feel about it.