Anne:
A while ago, I had a short stint at a smaller software company. When
asked how I found it by an agency, I said "I've never seen so many
_ frightened people in my life"._Hi Anne! Good to see you on the list
again.
This is one good way to spread the word discreetly. Agencies deal with
lots of companies and lots of applicants. They will not put too much
weight on one writer's bad report, especially if that writer has a
similar sad story about every terrible employer they've worked for.
But if you are otherwise a busy TW with happy clients, and you had a
bad experience with this one company, and a couple of other TWs
independently tell the agency, "Not that place... never again..."
Michael:
Yebbut - that depends on the nature of the problem. Fine if you can
identify
specifics, but not if you are limited to essentially subjective
perceptions.
Glassdoor gives you an opportunity to provide your data point and to
separately rate pay and conditions, management, culture, workload,
career opportunities, and so on. A combination of factors (good pay,
reasonable workload, nutty micromanager) that one TW finds
unacceptable might be tolerable to another.
As TWs we should be able to get across the nub of any problems, even
subjective ones, in a cool, balanced and useful way.
Christine:
I do not agree with the "shut up and cop it" approach.
... There are ways you can do it legally. So stop being
such scaredy-cats. Couldn't agree more. People who know everything
that's wrong with the employer and management and then become Uriah
Heep(*) to the boss's face...
Work places are becoming increasingly abusive ...
... this has not been my experience at all. There have a been a few
difficult workplaces over the years, but for the handful of bad, weak
and 'kiss up/kick down' managers there were as many decent managers
who were sabotaged by entrenched shop-floor "that ain't gonna happen"
cliques.
--- Stuart
(*) The Dickens character, not the band.
