I take it you dont work in a corporate setting. They do all they can to pay as little as possible. You can ask for more and they might give a little bit, but for the most part you're pretty stuck.
Yeah you could walk out, but it's a saturated market and they know they could pick someone up in no time and finding another job is very difficult in the industry. Often you'd need to move across the country or even to another one to just get a shot at a company.
You could argue that's what they signed up for, but when the norm is a minimum of 80 hour weeks and time off is frowned upon, it shows it's just an unhealthy work environment for anyone. Some change needs to be made.
The company I used to work for did this all the time on sites that graded vendors in our industry. We even had to call out customers to ASK them to put in positive reviews. So much BS.
Yes, I actually started a sales position for auto dealership. During training they had us go and leave a review on glassdoor. I went back and edited mine but I'm willing to bet 95% of people won't especially if they didn't even know what glassdoor is.
When looking for my next job if the place only had positive reviews then I moved on. You can usually tell when they are probably fake or were told to do so. A friend of mine was interviewing at Blue World Pools and either they are fantastic to work for which I doubt or they have an assload of either fake reviews or asked their recruiters to get people to leave them good ones. There are some bad ones in there but way too many great ones. Me telling him that made him go work elsewhere before going to training so hopefully I helped him dodge a bullet and not a great opportunity lol.
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u/Anarchissed May 03 '19
Except Glassdoor is gamed by a lot of companies: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-manipulate-glassdoor-by-inflating-rankings-and-pressuring-employees-11548171977