'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.

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Posted by Brad Dickson

The thing is, “anonymous” only goes so far, and not only is it easy enough for an employer to deduce who has left a review, but depending on where in the world you reside, they may be able to crack that anonymity anyway through information requests or by simply paying the platform to provide them the information.

This means that it's more than likely that, by leaving that review, you'll be burning that bridge, whether you intended to or not—it's up to you to decide whether or not that's something you care about.

This worker was denied a raise and threatened firing for bogus, subjective reasons. So, they quit and left a Glassdoor review that their employer wasn't thrilled to find. See their original thread below, along with some of the discussion that took place on the subject.