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Technically, it shouldn't. All an employer is really allowed to say is, yes so and so worked for us. they can, if they want to, say good things about their former employee, but at least where I live it's fairly illegal to say the bad things.
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I admit it takes a lot of practise but it can be done.Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Right, because there's no way that will come up when a future employer is reference checking.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Originally posted by Lorizael
Technically, it shouldn't. All an employer is really allowed to say is, yes so and so worked for us. they can, if they want to, say good things about their former employee, but at least where I live it's fairly illegal to say the bad things.
But prove it. A reference checker wants the straight goods and if they get it they can be smart enough not to blab. The employee hears they didn't get the job and get no further explanationYou don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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hence the technically part. and i'm willing to bet most former employers don't care enough to tattle on their former employees. at my last job I called out half the time I was scheduled and my boss still said he'd give me a good reference. now, he might have been lying, but i got another job a few days after that. as long as a former employee doesn't have a bad habit of mutilating their superiors, I really don't think the employer is going to give enough of a damn to give a bad reference.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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To be fair, the other half of the time I was scheduled my employer called me to tell me that I didn't have to come in. And - oh man I'm going to sound so mature here - he started it. I figured it was just desserts.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Lorizael, here's all that needs to be said, and it's perfectly legal:
HR person: So, given the chance, would you rehire Lorizael? (this question is asked ALL the time).
Former Boss: No way in hell.
ta-da!Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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Hare Krishna's?Originally posted by GePap
I started working on a job soliciting donations on the street, working on commission. We were in a group, with a trainer. I was out there two days and did not get a single person to donate a dime-when I came back that day to the office, the trainer said he did not think I would work out, and that I should not come back the next day.
They were right- I am no good at getting people to give money on the street.We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.Comment
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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I once accomplished to get myself fired the same day that I started.
Reason : walking around with my hands in my pockets, in stead of looking busy.
I did get a real job after that.veni vidi PWNED!Comment
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They always say that, they think you'll work harder to try and get the permanent job, 9 times out of 10 it's BS.Originally posted by Gibsie
It was only a temp contract (Supposed to last for two months, they were even saying that there could be some permanent positions out of it)Comment
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Funny how diferent two similar worlds can be, here former employers will give a favourable no matter what ( ok, within reason ).Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Lorizael, here's all that needs to be said, and it's perfectly legal:
HR person: So, given the chance, would you rehire Lorizael? (this question is asked ALL the time).
Former Boss: No way in hell.
ta-da!Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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yep, in the UK you need to have been a complete, useless, pain in the @rse not to get a good reference.Originally posted by alva
Funny how diferent two similar worlds can be, here former employers will give a favourable no matter what ( ok, within reason ).Comment
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I'm always worried about references. Like I wanted a reference from my dissertation project supervisor... I got a first class mark for my dissertation, yet I was still concerned he'd say, "Well, he's not any good at presentaitons, too easily led" and so on. Even knowing that's not legal, it doesn't matter to me.Comment
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I'm looking for references right now... When I am in a job I always forget to get them as people go by. I had a boss who would of been great, but he retired.Comment
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