On Mon, 9 May 2011 16:23:17 -0600 "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also not sure about anyone else, but if this did come to fruition I > think a hiring manager might be tempted to look at the site and do one > of two things. > #1 Terminate any employee that is currently working for me, that > participates in it. > #2 Use it as a screening tool for new employees to "weed out > complainers & whiners". The original proposal was to make the ratings anonymous, so these would be difficult to do. > > > The final problem with a site like what you propose is that you are > going to end up with a lot of astro-turfing. Either companies that > want to raise their score posting false positive reviews, or companies > seeking to lure talent away from other good companies using it to post > false negative reviews. Good point. Would an engineer spot an HR flack's astro-turf review? > > There is also termination bias that would need to be accounted for. > An employee may have sucked at his / her job and ended up getting > fired. That employee may post exaggerations about how bad the place > sucked. Yup. Although I expect most of us would spot a particular whiny rating for what it was. Clearly users would have to set their bullshit filters to very sensitive. > > Also who likes their job enough to actually go to a site and post what > a great place it is to work? Sorry but in my "downtime" I'm sure I've > got more important things to do like reading comments on Slashdot & > going over the latest Dilbert & xkcd cartoons ;) Ah, a man who has his priorities straight. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
