'They threatened to fire me': Management finds worker's Glassdoor review after they quit

The practice of necessitating and checking job referrals during the interview process creates a system in which an employer can provide feedback about a worker's performance and contribution during their time in the company's employ. Sure, the candidate themselves often needs to volunteer the points of contact, but when certain key periods of employment are omitted in a candidate's references… it's easy for a hiring manager to read between the lines.

So what, then, is an employee able to do to match this process of referrals? How are they to provide insight—or warning—to a past employer's future employees? The reality is that workers have little recourse when an employer provides a less-than-desirable employment experience, only able to do so at all thanks to "anonymous" review platforms like Glassdoor.