New website for rating your coworkers
Jessica Ayer
31 Posts
I read an article today in [I]Time [/I]magazine about a new website called Unvarnished that employees can use to rate their coworkers' job performances.
You can find the article at:
[URL="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1977982,00.html?artId=1977982?contType=article?chn=bizTech"]http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1977982,00.html?artId=1977982?contType=article?chn=bizTech[/URL]
You can find the article at:
[URL="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1977982,00.html?artId=1977982?contType=article?chn=bizTech"]http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1977982,00.html?artId=1977982?contType=article?chn=bizTech[/URL]
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I'm not worried about myself, mind you. Just others.
Anyone in HR who has ever gotten an anonymous note knows the worth of such forms of communication. Anonymity breeds bomb throwing and brings out the dark side in some people.
I hope Unvarnished has some excellent attorneys.
I don't know if lawsuits can stop it, but I think the only thing that might hold it back will involve lawyers.
As more and more of our information is available online I think you will see websites like this one (and worse) emerge from the slime.
For an example, check out [URL="http://www.spokeo.com"]www.spokeo.com[/URL] and type your name in the search bar.
Incidentally, I can't help wondering who those people are in the pictures that are supposed to be of me.
I typed in my son's name and was surprised to read that he and his family actually live in my house (it's small, so I don't know where the six of them are hiding) that, although the house is in a "below average" neighborhood, it's worth over a million dollars (the neighborhood is just average middle-class, and my house is most assuredly not worth that much) and that my son is actually African-American.
I also have a different husband or at least the picture is different.
Does that mean I can go home now?
They didn't know much about me but they did overstate my age by a few years, which kinda ticked me off. I mean, if you're going to put my information out there without my permission, and get most of it wrong anyhow, couldn't you have made me [I]younger[/I] instead of older?!
I'm all over the web, and I'm not listed. Nor is my son (same name). On the other hand, my father (same name), who has NEVER been on the internet and doesn't own a computer, is listed. And all the details are correct.
Let's go look up our MLS moderators...
Let's go look up our MLS moderators...[/quote]
I'd say it's six of one and a half dozen of the other. Seeing my own profile on that site does, however, explain why, after 20+ years of divorce, I still get mail for my exhusband.
Sharon :-O
Well, this is sorta related to the topic that triggered this thread -- [I]i.e.[/I], when people weigh about a colleague or, really, anything else on a website while remaining anonymous. Some journalists are beginning to think that approach isn't working too well on their news websites, according to the NY Times.
[URL]http://nyti.ms/9ZGbxD[/URL]
I think one of the reasons that Facebook has been so successful is that people use their real names and that makes them think twice (usually) about what they post.
The anonymous comments that follow the stories on our local Portland news websites are often atrocious.
Adults say the darnedest things...
When a local boy disappeared while riding his bike, the kid's poor stepfather was tried, convicted and all-but-executed in the local blogesphere. The hateful things said about him were incredible. He endured this for years before they finally found his son, who had been kidnapped at random by a stranger. It may sound strange, but I was happier for the stepfather than I was for the kid, to be honest.