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[–] arc@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I've never seen much reason to use a real name on Glassdoor. They demand visitors sign up to see information, and every logon it demands more details. So I am glad I used a throwaway account and I expect many others did too, or filled it in with junk. I hope their database is poisoned with garbage. I'm sure they will continue to turn the screws - using a mobile device? You MUST use our app etc. I hope people realise that LinkedIn already sucks and here is something even worse moving into the same space.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

From the article that they acquired a professional social networking app so their intention is clearly to be like LinkedIn - real names, links, career history, "social". They want to monetize that information to sell to recruiters and salesmen.

So basically they're nakedly greedy and they continue to suck. I thought LinkedIn was awful but Glassdoor is a whole new level of awful.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 52 points 8 months ago

Glassdoor is little more than a shakedown service like Yelp or Tripadvisor. It looks superficially useful but the real purpose is to suck information out of users to monetize, and extort businesses for $$$ for review "curation".

[–] arc@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] arc@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Police in other countries don't face an epidemic of guns, crime, homelessness, drugs and mental health issues. If the US wasn't so dysfunctional and actually attempted to tackle these issues in a holistic way then I assume the role of cops would also change. But right now it is not that way. They are trained so if someone comes at them with a knife, or draws a weapon to threaten the cop or somebody else, they WILL shoot. Watch the body cam footage on https://www.youtube.com/@PoliceActivity/videos or the state cop channel of your choice and you'll see exactly why.

And to repeat what I said somewhere else, I'm not on the cop's side, but I am on the side of full disclosure and body cam footage to show context. I support defunding the police - although, not the name which is a fantastically stupid way to describe it - but supporting mental health services, tackling drugs & recidivism and other assistance would mean less people in these confrontations.

[–] arc@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago

I've seen plenty of clips where the cops are in the wrong. Idiot cops firing pistols by accident or shooting in the absence of imminent threat. And that's why I support body worn cameras and full disclosure. Is is also why I am extremely skeptical of newspapers jumping to conclusions in the absence of the footage. It is very easy for relatives of the deceased to decry the cops as racist, or trigger happy and it be reported as such. And then the footage comes out and it shows something completely different.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Most major police forces in the US release footage of officer involved shootings. I think predominantly they show the police using lethal force appropriately. There are some occasions where they clearly don't, or where you wonder how it got to the situation where the cops were put in a position to have to defend themselves from somebody that the system could have helped.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

A lot of people voting me down very clearly know the truth because the newspaper told them so. Despite lacking the footage to make that judgement.

[–] arc@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You think there would be less dead citizens if cops waited to pull their guns until after assault? Go and watch a OIS channel like Police Activity and come back with a straight face and claim that.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly right, release the footage and stop jumping to conclusions.

[–] arc@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Watch a YouTube channel like Police Activity and you'll see plenty of OIS / body cam videos where if that were the rule there would be a lot of very dead cops.

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