Melanie, FYI: You can basically type anything related to mystery shopping and chances are that our posts come up on search. They have for me. My own posts.
I am only speaking for me when I say I prefer PM'ing for many things, because employers, employees and scammers read this site too. I do agree that "how badly" they want the information, they will get it and join this site. Or worse, you have the trolls who care NOT about this industry, because they have been slighted in some way, by doing poorly on a shop and get axed. They read this forum too.... They want to bring down the names of all mystery shopping companies they felt did them wrong.
Everything we write here is "forever" imprinted. Just like every "drunk-passed-out-picture" a girl posts on facebook of her "face kissing the sidewalk"... that is forever, in infamy.
People say every day, "Oh my gosh, they've stolen my identity." I say, what took them so long?? Anything related to the internet can be had, and oftentimes stolen and sold.
That is why I consider emails private. How would you feel if someone you emailed, posted it on here? But still, everything you do on the internet is for EVERYONE to see. (sooner or later).
Like Kevin O' Leary from Shark Tank says, "Before I hire someone, I look on all social sites, forums, anywhere, everywhere, to tell me the CHARACTER of that person, before I hire them.