What (specifically) can an former employer tell my potential employers?
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What (specifically) can an former employer tell my potential employers?
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Terminated 3/7/2007 and after several applications, I've only received a couple interviews which looked like they were going in a positive direction only to take a dive after calling my references. Then my wife's co-worker frustrated with our situation called him posing as a potential employer from a minimum wage factory.
She asked, "Eligible for rehire?" He said, "Uhhhh. No."
"On time?" "No."
"Overall was he a good employee? Good work ethic?" "Oh no."
Then he says, "I've got to be going, but if you need anymore info, I can call you back." As if to offer information as to why I shouldn't be hired.
We ended on bad terms, but for the year that I was there, he kept telling me how much better of a job I was doing than the guy who used to be in charge.
I used to work as a cleaner/supervisor for a motor coach company that drives red buses out of Urbana, IL. Drivers say that since my wife and I were fired the coaches aren't half as clean as they were when we were there and the toilets don't get cleaned and serviced like they used to. This place can't keep good help and currently the guy who does what I did is supposedly and alcoholic. There has never been more than four people to work there at a time cleaning and I had to work varying shifts that made it hard to get more than four hours of sleep per night.
For example one time (happened pretty often) we went in at 12am cleaned a bus. Went home slept three hours got up cleaned a bunch more til 9am then were required to work until 5pm that afternoon.
Then as well as I supposedly did the job, the guy before me (a friend of mine) tells me he was paid 2 dollars more per hour than I got. I feel I was more than flexible, more than generous with my time and now I'm almost bitter that I can't prove that he's saying things about me. I've even written him a letter of reconciliation which he only said "thanks" for. I don't have the money to seek legal council and now that it's been so long, I would have a considerable time explaining why I've been unemployed so long if I left them off as an employer. I feel that I condemn myself if I tell employers they can't contact them. What can I do? Similar story?
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ModelFlyerChick
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As far as I know your ex-employer is only allowed to verify the dates you worked there and whether or not you are eligible for rehire. Your ex-employer is telling the potentials that you're not eligible. That is enough to steer most away without asking additional questions. As for being condemned by saying "no contact"...well..you are right about that. It's like that because the potential employer is going to wonder "why?".
You have 2 choices:
1) Leave the employer on the resume with a "no contact". ...and be prepared to explain why. This is won't be easy to explain but it will be easier than trying to explain a false employment gap.
2) Remove the employer from the resume. ..and be ready to explain a false employment gap. The employer is going to ask why you didn't work and what you did during that gap. ...and be ready to answer any questions about details. If any answer does not line up with your original explanation the employer automatically knows the whole story is a lie and will not proceed with the hiring process any further. |
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bogey
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i would simply be honest about what went on there
or another thing you could do is not to put that job on your work history
your friend posing as a potential employer did ask the right questions any employer would have asked and yes they probably was honest when they answered like they did who could function on 4 hours sleep and worked the hours like you was thats a working dog job sounds like
if you have any job that you left on good terms thats who i would have
your new potential employer call again be honest especially about the hours but first i would ask what their hours are like where you want to put in the application
sounds like i wouldnt want to do that job i would leave in a week and
not look back no one could function like that unless they required little sleep |
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Judy
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They can say pretty much anything as long as it's true. |
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